What we've been presented with--and I'll try to accurately summarize--is we've had some witnesses who have talked about the fact that, yes, Parliament can in fact create parameters for the Prime Minister to exercise his authority to request prorogation of the Governor General. Everyone appears to agree that we cannot affect the Governor General's authority and reserve powers to award prorogation, if I can call it that, or to prorogue the House. Some witnesses have talked about legislation, other witnesses have talked about the Standing Orders and legislation, and other witnesses have put forth the possibility of Standing Orders solely.
In all cases, though, they've talked about how it would be very important, if Parliament does agree to go forth and create parameters, that we be very careful to ensure that it is not so restrictive as to exclude exceptional circumstances where any reasonable person, any reasonable politician, regardless of their political stripe, would agree that there should be prorogation if there is just cause to request it. And secondly, Parliament or the House may wish to look at describing incentives for the Prime Minister to follow or not, but should he not follow them, there would be possible consequences once a new session began.
I'd like to know if you have any thoughts on that.