I'm proposing that the Standing Orders of the House of Commons be amended to provide that the government would be deemed to have lost the confidence of the House were it to submit an opinion to the governor general that Parliament should be prorogued without first having passed a resolution to that effect in the House. The Standing Orders could state that the resolution must set out the date on which the House would be recalled and the date on which a new throne speech would be delivered.
Apart from an amendment to the Standing Orders, it could take the form of a new practice. Adopting the practice would not require amending the Standing Orders. If the government were to do it on its own, without amending the Standing Orders, it could help establish a new tradition. I think that would be in the government's interests, because it would put an end to questions about its legitimacy.