I'm recommending that this committee and your House, of which you are a part, reach an agreement on how you're to be closed down. That's a crucial part of the life of any body, and I think you have to decide.
The idea that you can be closed down anytime, for any length of time, for any reason, by the Prime Minister, even a Prime Minister who doesn't have a majority in your House, strikes me as making you very vulnerable, if I may say so, to being shut down in all kinds of situations. And many of the people of Canada are very disturbed by it; they're not disturbed when prorogation is used normally.
You have, in the Layton motion, one way of doing it. I must underline that none of the other Westminster parliamentary countries have crafted a rule for this. I've checked with New Zealand, Australia, and the United Kingdom. They haven't had this great public controversy about prorogation.
So you are in uncharted territory, sir, and I think you have to discuss what kind of rule would make some sense to you all, not just to the three parties who passed the Layton motion.