Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Cyr.
Thank you, Mr. Wiseman and Mr. Adams, for appearing in front of the committee this morning.
Mr. Wiseman, I have a suspicion that you have ideas you'd like to talk to us about in regard to the possibility of sanctions that have been discussed with previous witnesses. You mention in your opening remarks that:
Nothing in any law, motion, or Parliamentary Standing Order regarding prorogation can limit the crown's prerogative power unless it takes on the status of a convention.
However, could we take action through the Standing Orders to penalize or to slow down the government--for example, if we were to say in the Standing Orders that if the government prorogues, if the governing party prorogues Parliament, when Parliament returns, it will be x amount of months, or x amount of weeks, or x amount of days for the governing party's members to be allowed to table private members' business, or other sanctions towards that particular party?