Thank you, Madam Chair. I would echo your comments that these were very useful comments from both of the distinguished academics with us today.
Thank you to both of you for joining us.
Professor Bratt, I might start with you. You had made some interesting comments in your opening statements that hark back to comments made by Minister Rodriguez earlier this week. He told this committee that the one and only reason for prorogation was the reset for the COVID-19 crisis.
You rightly noted that it is an important issue and one that would in theory be worthy of a reset, but you made some interesting comments about the speech itself being basically a rehash of previous announcements and not really the grand occasion that might have been envisioned for a reset.
Would I be right in suggesting in your comments on this that the minister might have been putting a bit of a political spin on the one and only reason, and would you agree that the primary reason was a way to get out of the difficult political situation related to WE?