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Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Identifikator:: 1747798770

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-120203

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Ottel, Klemens http://d-nb.info/gnd/1024837165

Title:: Die Technik des wirtschaftlichen Verkehrs

Edition:: 2. neubearb. Aufl.

Place of publication:: Wien

Publisher:: Manz

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: VI, 324 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: VIII. Das Bankgeschäft

Collection:: Economics Books

244 THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [PART II resented by Mr. Mercier and his supporters, and his conduct was violently denounced as unconstitutional and illegal. But Mr. de Boucherville, who was asked by the Lieutenant- Governor to take office, was successful in forming a Ministry, and at the election in March 1892 he was triumphantly returned with an overwhelming majority of thirty-one, in a House then of seventy-three members. Among the numerous points discussed during the course of the dispute, which was conducted with much heat on both sides, as the Ministry was a Liberal one and the Lieutenant- Governor the nominee of a Conservative Government at Ottawa, there was the point whether the Lieutenant-Governor had not broken the law in dissolving the new Legislature before it could conduct any business, with the result that the year 1891 saw no session whatever of the Legislature of Quebec? It was argued that this was a breach of the pro- visions of the British North America Act, which requires one session of the Legislature every year, but on the other hand it was contended, apparently correctly, that it was sufficient that the Legislature should be formally summoned, and that the necessity of having one business session a year was subject also to the power of the Lieutenant-Governor at any time to dissolve the Legislature. In any case, it was certainly in harmony with common sense that the Legislature should not have met until a general election had decided the question as to the confidence of the country in the new Ministry. In 1903 the Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia decided to dismiss Colonel Prior, who was then the head of the provincial Ministry. Ever since 1900 there had been constant strife of parties divided on no intelligible lines, and mainly concerned with the ambition for power of the several members of the party. But the Ministry had suffered early in the vear a serious blow by allegations made against two 1 See Canadian Gazette, xviii. 4, 9, 81, 97, 289, 296, 300, 322, 324, 398, 471, 513, 565, 584, 588; Canada Sess. Pap., 1891, No. 86; 1892, No. 88. * Cf. Provincial Legislation, 1867-95, p. 456; in 1910 there was only a formal session in Saskatchewan. * See Canadian Annual Review, 1903, pp. 213 seq.

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