If all else fails, call the Queen (II)
More from the Prime Minister’s Office on the alleged contemplation, this time in comments to the CBC.
The Prime Minister’s Office says today: "that assertion is false. The issue of the Queen is false." The PMO says it isn’t true because at the time it felt the government had the confidence of the House since it voted in favour of the Throne Speech roughly a month earlier, saying Harper felt the decision to prorogue Parliament was an "open and shut matter" for the GG.
The PMO says: "there was no such contemplation required."
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