Let me start with perhaps the more interesting one, and one that's been debated in some of your previous testimony, and that is the ability of the Speaker to be in contact with the Governor General, shall we say. I think it is in fact a clear and ancient right of the Speaker to have an access to the monarch or the monarch's representatives to convey the wishes of the House. This is a very ancient and well-established right that arose as Parliament was asserting its power to the crown.
This was most recently and clearly reaffirmed by Speaker Milliken in November 2005, when there was a motion passed asking the Speaker to inform the Governor General that, if there were to be an election, the House would prefer the election to be held on a certain day. There was some discussion as to whether this motion could be put and whether the Speaker could in fact approach the Governor General.
The Speaker ruled that the House could make any kind of motion to express an opinion and that he, as a servant of the House, would be more than willing to have a cup of tea with the Governor General and inform her of the House's opinion, but while he was putting it in a whimsical way, this was a very clear affirmation of the Speaker's acceptance of his right to inform the Governor General of the House's motions.
So yes, that could be one way: to create a mechanism whereby the Governor General is directly informed that a majority of the House holds a certain opinion on prorogation. The suggestion I made was essentially to pass a motion that was worded in an enduring way, so that there would be a sort of standing authorization from the House to refuse assent that had not previously been consented to by the House or needed for an emergency.