| If they want to talk about obstructionist behaviour, I would like to talk about prorogation. |
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| The government was supposed to recalibrate during this prorogation and arrive ready to take action. |
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| In fact, the number of days Parliament sits will be reduced by only 22 over the course of the period of prorogation. |
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| The proposed rules on applicable law and prorogation are limited to divorce and legal separation and do not apply to marriage annulment. |
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| Those two bills each died on the order paper upon the prorogation of Parliament. |
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| What has been done in most cases has been simply to select the first page of them showing the date of assent, preceded, of course, by the prorogation. |
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| I will make a prediction and go out on a limb and say that I do not expect we will see another prorogation of the House any time soon. |
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| On February 2, 2009, as a result of the prorogation of Parliament on December 4, 2008, the Minister reintroduced the Conversion Rules in a notice of ways and means motion. |
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| In either event, the effect of prorogation is generally the clearing of all outstanding matters before the legislature. |
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| Jean Chretien used prorogation to forestall tabling of the Auditor General's report on the sponsorship scandal until his successor took office. |
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| Some of Mr Harper's critics are also affronted by his high-handedness in not bothering to call on the governor-general personally to ask for prorogation, as tradition demands, but instead making his request by telephone. |
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| A parliamentary motion was signed by all members of Labour's shadow cabinet together with leaders of all the other opposition parties for the prorogation of Parliament to be postponed so that the report could be published. |
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| A session of the legislature is brought to an end by an official act of prorogation. |
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| The first problem is that its adherents offer different justifications for why Governors General have limited or no discretion in matters of prorogation. |
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| A session of Parliament is brought to an end by a prorogation. |
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| The House of Lords may imprison an individual for any fixed period of time, but an individual imprisoned by the House of Commons is set free upon prorogation. |
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| Historically, each session of a parliament would last less than one year, ceasing with a prorogation during which legislators could return to their constituencies. |
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| In the parliament of the United Kingdom, prorogation is immediately preceded by a speech to both legislative chambers, with procedures similar to the Throne Speech. |
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| These include the opening and prorogation of Parliament, the confirmation of a newly elected Speaker of the House of Commons and the granting of Royal Assent. |
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| The monarch was known as Empress or Emperor of India and the term was often used in Queen Victoria's Queen's Speeches and Prorogation Speeches. |
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| Prorogation usually occurs about one year after a session begins, and formally concludes the session. |
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