This is a really good thread, and @PhilippeLagasse is right all the way through. The only caveat I have is that many have wished throughout the years that QP be more substantive/less meatheaded; I think this is the wrong avenue for improving parliament (thread) https://twitter.com/PhilippeLagasse/status/1252393467768004608">https://twitter.com/PhilippeL...

QP is 45 minutes, general in scope and with very short questions and answers. Ministers aren& #39;t compelled to answer within their brief. It simply isn& #39;t a good forum for substantive questioning of a single policy area or current issue (very much like PMQs in the UK)...

However, the UK has other avenues to ask substantive questions - in particular departmental questions.

This should be the way Canada goes. It should develop other forms of questioning Ministers within the chamber...

QP has real value as a general temperature check (in the same way that PMQs is really helpful to the government in forcing a scope check every week). We should do something like QP twice a week, and have more specific departmental questions about four or five times a week...

More broadly, Canada has a tendency to think that if we just improved the mechanisms we already have Parliament can improve. I tend to disagree; we should add to our arsenal, not just hope that things that haven& #39;t changed much will change if we tried hard enough.