How to make up for the days lost to prorogation

Someone has a bright idea on how to make up for the lost time and it's worth looking at by our MPs. The question is: Will they? If they really and truly have the good of the country at heart and want to do a good job, they will. If they want to run around like kiddies in a playground, they won't.

..... Our MPs could sit during the summer, a common practice at Westminster through the 1800s. For the British MPs, summer sittings were difficult – given the stench from the Thames. They did, of course, give themselves a couple of weeks off in the last half of August. (Grouse hunting season began Aug. 12; salmon fishing season ended Aug. 31.)

Our MPs will do nothing of the sort, of course – they lack the requisite puritanical inclination. This is probably just as well. The fact is that prorogation gave the country a learning experience. We learned that prorogation is a relatively common parliamentary device, however craftily it may be used for the political advantage of the prorogator. (In Prime Minister Stephen Harper's defence, he uses it only when he needs it.) We learned that restaurants, bars, hotels and cab drivers in downtown Ottawa take a serious economic hit when Parliament is not sitting. We learned that MPs could go on strike for an extended period without any compelling need for back-to-work legislation.......
via: Bourque