It most certainly is, and let me make a comment on that. That's why I asked the question previously about whether, in your opinion, you consider this to be an abuse of power. Certainly it is within the Prime Minister's prerogative to prorogue whenever he feels he should for either political reasons or other reasons of an emergency nature. However, given that the Prime Minister exercised his prerogative to prorogue on the eve of several committees receiving information that could have further implicated the government in the WE scandal, I find the timing of the prorogation was curious, to say the least.
Dr. Messamore, do you think the prorogation in this specific instance was necessary?