Répertoire des administrateurs & commissaires de société, des banques, banquiers et agents de change de France et de Belgique

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Title:: Répertoire des administrateurs & commissaires de société, des banques, banquiers et agents de change de France et de Belgique

Place of publication:: Paris [u.a.]

Year of publication:: [1926]

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Title:: Répertoire des administrateurs, commissaires, liquidateurs, curateurs, etc., de sociétés

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OHAP. 1] ORIGIN AND HISTORY 15 on whom the results of unsatisfactory government first recoiled. He laid special stress on the necessity of leaving to the local Government all patronage, a recommendation not altogether palatable at a time when, despite vigorous disclaimers, posts in the Colonies were a recognized way of disposing of younger sons for whom no other employment could decently be found. To his list of exceptions to the rule of self-government must of course be added military and naval affairs, which he naturally, at a time when two risings had been put down with the aid of Imperial troops, assumed to be matters for Imperial control. The omission of questions affecting the natives is probably to be attributed bo the fact that the question of the rights of the Indians did not present itself as of much consequence in the provinces which he deemed to be ripe for self-government at the time of his visit to the Dominion. The Imperial Government were in no hurry to adopt in heir full form the proposals of Lord Durham in favour of responsible government, but in his instructions to Mr. C. Poulett Thomson when he went out as Governor, Lord John Russell took, on October 16, 1839.1 the important step of announcing that the principal offices of the Colony would not be considered as being held by a tenure equivalent to one during good behaviour, but that the holders would be liable to be called upon to retire whenever, from motives of public policy or for other reasons, this should be found expedient. A further definition of responsible government was arrived at after the Constitution Act of 1840 re-united the two Canadas and placed them as a unit under one Governor- General. On September 3, 1841, Mr. Harrison submitted to the Legislative Assembly of Canada, in substitution for a set of resolutions proposed by Mr. R. Baldwin, a series of resolu- tions which define as follows the system of government :— The head of the Executive Government of the Province being within the limits of his Government the representative of the Sovereign is responsible to the Imperial authority * Parl. Pap., H.C. 621, 1848, p. 5; of. Egerton and Grant. Canadian Constitutional History, pp. 266 seq.

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