Conservative job program

Harper has proven the opposition wrong. He has taken measures to create jobs. Well, not exactly create them but to fill them anyway. With conservatives.

Harper to fill Senate vacancies before Christmas

Prime Minister Stephen Harper plans to fill all 18 vacancies in the Liberal-dominated Senate before Christmas, a spokesman for his office told CBC News.

Can he do that? I mean, the Parliament is prorogued. Doesn't that mean that the government has limited powers?