Category Archives: Prorogation

Peter H. Russell Now Agrees With Me: What Happens When a Governor General Rejects a Prime Minister’s Constitutional Advice

Posted on 2021/08/13 by J.W.J. Bowden

For the last eight years or so, I have stated in numerous blog posts, presentations at conferences, my thesis, and several journal articles the basic precepts of the established constitutional position of the governors and prime ministers under Responsible Government. … Continue reading →

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The Nova Scotian Strain: Tactical Prorogation in Canada’s Ocean Playground

Posted on 2021/02/02 by J.W.J. Bowden

Prorogation by Speech from the Throne Qualifies as a “Sitting” On 18 December 2020, prorogation once again provoked some controversy in Canada – but this time for a different reason which might surprise you.

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PROC Examines the Retroactive Prorogation Rationale After All

Posted on 2020/12/23 by J.W.J. Bowden

PROC decided to study the Retroactive Prorogation Rationale (Sessional Paper 8560-432-1261-01_e) in 2020 after all. Committees tend not to update the official transcripts (Evidence) until two weeks later, so I misinterpreted and missed some of these developments last month by … Continue reading →

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PROC Sentences the Retroactive Prorogation Rationale to a Quiet Bureaucratic Death

Posted on 2020/11/30 by J.W.J. Bowden

Sometimes I forgot to follow up on these developments right away, and the obscura and minutia on which I normally focus here on Parliamentum usually goes unreported in the press, too. The House of Commons Standing Committee on Procedure and … Continue reading →

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The Trudeau Government’s Retroactive Prorogation Rationale Under Standing Order 32(7)

Posted on 2020/10/29 by J.W.J. Bowden

Introduction In my previous post, I recounted how the House of Commons had added in Standing Order 32(7) in June 2017, on the initiative of the Trudeau government and its parliamentary majority at the time, which now obliges the government … Continue reading →

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