Thank you.
I just offer this. With full respect to all of the colleagues who are here, repeatedly we've had both Liberal colleagues...and I think Mr. Turnbull even said that it was his reason, the Prime Minister's reason to prorogue. We can all sit here and speculate as to what others have said. It's only speculation until you hear it directly from the Prime Minister and those who were around him. I think that Canadians as well as this committee deserve to know why the prorogation happened.
We can have a number of different academics, like the great witnesses we've had today: Ms. Turnbull, Mr. Brodie and Mr. Cyr. Truly, until we hear from the Prime Minister and those who are around him, speculation will run rampant.
I think the best course for this committee is to call for those four witnesses to come forward. We reserve the right to call future witnesses after we hear from them. I think again, we can point fingers and do everything to look at all the reasons that it was done in the past, but we're studying the prorogation in 2020 and a number of academics and witnesses have already said that it is the Prime Minister's prerogative to prorogue. Truly, if we were to move forward with this without actually hearing from those four individuals, it would all just be speculation. We'd be doing a disservice not only to Parliament but to Canadians writ large.