Thank you.
Professor Franks, I'd like to come back to section 18 of the British North America Act in a moment. But first, with regard to conventions and how one could establish conventions, I'm going to posit two possible outcomes that could have been exercised the first week the House was back in session at the beginning of 2009 or 2010.
Within a week of coming back, a motion of non-confidence is introduced. It says that whereas it was illegitimate to prorogue Parliament in order to do whatever it was the Prime Minister was trying to achieve, the House has lost confidence in the government. On the basis of that, if the majority votes in favour of the motion, we have an election. The voters bring back a government that is not a Conservative government--maybe it is the Liberals, or a minority or a majority, whatever. That would suggest to me that after that experience, we would say a convention exists.
In contrast, if we have an election on that basis and a Conservative government is returned, it would suggest to me that, more or less, a convention doesn't exist on this subject.
In terms of determining when a convention comes into existence, is my understanding of those scenarios a reasonable one in your mind?