The use, misuse, and abuse of prorogation
No Prime Minister has so abused the power to prorogue. Harper's former chief of staff Tom Flanagan understood the obvious: the purpose of prorogation was to terminate Parliament's probing of the Afghan detainee issue.
TORONTO—Defending the prorogation of Parliament, Stephen Harper asserted it is a "fairly standard procedure"; it had occurred 104 times since Confederation. Actually, it has occurred 120 times, tallying his three prorogations since 2007. This does not buttress the point that Harper's pror...
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