120 THE DOMINION PARLIAMENT. 
adjournment, as the Canadian Parliament has not adopted 
the rule that the speeches should be relevant to the question 
of adjournment. 
Proroga- 
Hon. 
[ts effect. 
8. PROROGATION. 
In Canada Parliament is usually prorogued by the 
Governor-General in person. As soon as the business of 
the two Houses is completed, the Governor-General, through 
his secretary, and with the advice of his ministers, informs 
the Speaker of each House that at a certain hour on a given 
day he will prorogue Parliament. The Commons are sum- 
moned in the usual manner to attend in the Senate chamber, 
and after assent is given to bills that have been passed, the 
Governor-General delivers the customary speech in English 
and French. At the conclusion of the speech the Speaker 
declares that :— 
«Tt is his Excellency the Governor-General’s will and 
pleasure that this Parliament be prorogued until —— 
and to be then here holden; and this Parliament is 
accordingly prorogued until —— ” 
The fact of the prorogation is also notified in the “Canada 
Gazette.” 
The effect of the prorogation is to put an end to the 
session. Proceedings on all bills pending in either House 
cease to have any effect, and such bills will require to be 
introduced again and go through all the necessary stages 
in the following session. Where a session ends unexpect- 
edly it is customary as in England to protect parties promoting 
private bills, and by a series of resolutions to permit such 
bills to be advanced in the following session by unopposed 
motions to the stages at which they stood when the proro- 
gation took place” All committees, standing or select. are 
dissolved by the prorogation. 
1 Burinot, p. 236.