Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's approaching 30.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Not that I'm aware of. We were engaged I think on, as Allen said, the 17th, to start preparing the proclamation, the appropriate documentation, but not privy to what conversations may have taken place before that.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, I'm not aware of an instance where that has taken place. As Allen has said, you don't want to presume that the Governor General...so you wouldn't announce that “we will be proroguing next week”. It would basically be couched in terms of “it would be my intention to ask for a

Procedure and House Affairs committee  When the proclamation is drafted to prorogue, a pro forma date must also be set at that time as established by the Prime Minister. Generally, traditionally it has been 40 days or thereabouts, but in the past few decades that has varied. The pro forma date can be changed. Doing so

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There used to be an alternative process that was a more formal process in the Senate, but that was discontinued back in the 1980s. Now it is just the issuing of an instrument of advice followed by a proclamation.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Not that I'm aware of, but that doesn't really fall into our bailiwick, so there may well have been.