“Question Period is not part of the legislative process, and has nothing to do with it. It is a means of monitoring the Executive that the Government cannot evade.”

—  John Allen Fraser

Source: The House Of Commons At Work (1993), Chapter 9, The House of Commons Functions, p. 122

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