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 summoned
 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 unexpectedly
 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 prorogation
 took place” All committees, standing or select. are
dissolved by the prorogation.
1 Burinot, p. 236.