Great, thank you for that.
To that end as well, there's been a fair bit of stock put on the importance of holding a confidence vote by the Prime Minister on the return after the Speech from the Throne. I think the official quote—and I'll read it—was “duty-bound and honour-bound to ensure we had the continued confidence of the House”.
To both of you as well, some have suggested that this was almost a way of fishing for an election before the second wave hit. Would you agree that there are other procedural tools that would have been available to the government, without prorogation, to have a confidence vote to ensure that it was clear they had the confidence of the House of Commons? Would you suggest there are other tools outside of prorogation to have gone that route?