Yes, I will be brief, Mr. Chair.
I just want to finish the question that I wanted to put to you at the end of the previous round table.
As chance would have it, over the past two years, the Prime Minister used prorogation in December, at the end of the year. As you remember, it was two years ago. This was in order to avoid facing a Liberal-NDP coalition supported by the Bloc Québécois. He resorted to prorogation. And this time, on December 30, 2009, it was in order to avoid the whole issue of Afghan prisoners, etc.
If, as in England, Parliament was prorogued on December 31 of each year, would we have to change various legal and legislative instruments to avoid...? The event happened in late December. Now if the House must be prorogued in December of each year, and if in March or in September, some other event occurs, some other coalition or some other documents that the government does not want to show, the Prime Minister could once again resort to prorogation if we had not limited this power.