No. I have not examined the historical precedence on this. I suspect if we looked very carefully we would find many times over history that ministers of the crown were found in contempt or the equivalent--impeachment used to be the most common thing there--and it did not force the government to resign. Whether that's true for a Prime Minister I don't know, but a Prime Minister, as we understand it, is a relatively recent innovation--less than 200 years old.
The answer there is very curious. Procedural motions are not, in their nature, confidence. I'll give you an example of something that I consider should be a motion of procedure that we've never had in Canada and that I'd like to see.
I have found over the years that the Budget Implementation Act gets bigger and bigger and covers an awful lot of things not included in the budget sometimes. The Senate recommended that the Budget Implementation Act be divided into several and go to the different committees for examination. I certainly think that should happen. That would be a procedural motion, and I don't think it would be a vote of confidence.
Just as an aside, one of the reasons I get excited about that is because I'm an avid whitewater canoeist, and the one last year, in my view, doesn't protect whitewater rivers adequately enough.