Mr. Speaker, I guess there is one thing that really has not been cleared up, not from any of the comments I have heard from the member.
The idea of a prorogue is to prepare for a new session to bring in a new set of initiatives through a throne speech. We all know, even the Liberals know, that the throne speech was not new. There were no new initiatives. It was the same old stuff. Now we know that everything that was on the table prior to prorogation will now be brought back exactly the same as it was. Therefore, we had two weeks of everybody earning a big, fat salary doing nothing when we should have been here dealing with some serious problems like agriculture. This minister knows how serious the agricultural problem is in so many areas. He ought to know because I know his own farmers are doing a very good job of educating him about that.
My question once more, just to try to get it straight in my mind, is this. Why did the government prorogue? There was no reason to.