Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, I'm sorry. It's good to be reminded.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you. Let me say that as part of the negotiations between the parties for a review or revision of the Standing Orders, this is one issue amongst many that would need to be considered. Personally, I would put other issues further ahead in priority in those negotiations, but

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I don't think there's any question that's the case, yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm not here to testify in a partisan capacity, so I'm going to be careful about passing judgment on the government's broader political agenda. We're in the same dominating political issue of the day, the ongoing public health crisis, and that hasn't changed since last March.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Mr. Therrien, on that front, I agree with your assessment. Given the number of times the government has needed urgent legislation to respond to the public health crisis since March 17, it was running an extraordinary risk to leave the House of Commons shuttered for as many weeks

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Members will know that, on the issue of the medical assistance in dying legislation, there is an ongoing controversy and there are ongoing implementation issues across the country on this. It's unclear to me whether Bill C-7, as currently crafted, will resolve all the issues that

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Mr. Blaikie, thank you for that question. In my book on the subject, I tried to outline the many complicated aspects of the relationship between cabinet, the Prime Minister's prerogatives of leadership, the decisions of the cabinet and Parliament as a whole, of which decisions o

Procedure and House Affairs committee  As I said, prorogation is always a political decision. As a result of my background as a political scientist, I think political reasons for political decisions are perfectly legitimate. A prime minister might want to have prorogation for any one of many reasons. Nonetheless, the

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm afraid, Mr. Turnbull, that I stepped down as chief of staff at the end of June 2008, so I can't speak about the internal reasons for that. All I can do is speak about the report that's before the committee here.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  During the 42nd Parliament, this government did not prorogue. It relaunched its agenda and self-managed all of those consultations without prorogation. We need to look a bit more carefully at the political context, and what was going on in the House of Commons at the time of pror

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I understand. Mr. Lukiwski, it's a pleasure to see you again. All I can say is that prorogation is always a political decision since it's always the decision of the Prime Minister. The argument that there was a need to relaunch, clean out and restart the government's agenda, I

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you for inviting me to testify today and for accommodating my schedule. Let me get directly to the issues that I think will be of most help to this committee. On the issue of prorogation, I think the authority to request a prorogation is clear. F