“Stephen Harper has used prorogation to avoid difficult political circumstances,” the Liberals’ 2015 platform complained. “We will not.”
Well, that was then. Mr. Harper, it is true, had used the power to prorogue Parliament in the way the Liberals described: to escape certain defeat on a confidence vote, in December, 2008, and to cut short a parliamentary committee’s inquiries into the Afghan prisoners affair, in 2010.
