Natural resources of Quebec

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Identifikator:: 1796289558

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-181093

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Natural resources of Quebec

Edition:: Rev. ed.

Place of publication:: Ottawa

Publisher:: Natural resources intelligence service

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: 132 p; illus., maps

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter II. The land and the people

Collection:: Economics Books

26 NATURAL RESOURCES OF QUEBEC the exclusive authority of the provinces, matters of purely local and prov- incial concern, chief among which may be mentioned the imposition of direct taxes. administration of justice. maintenance of gaols, hospitals, asylums and similar institutions, the control of natural resources vested in the province, education, property and civil rights and municipal insti- tutions. In Quebec as in the other provinces, the Lieutenant-Governor, ap- pointed by the Dominion Government, is the representative of the Crown. In addition to him the legislature consists of the Legislative Council of twentv-four members appointed for life bv the Lieutenant-Governor in Parliament Buildings at Quebec Council, and the Legislative Assembly of eighty-five members elected by popular vote. The Executive or Cabinet Council in Quebec is composed of the Premier, Provincial Secretary, Provincial Treasurer, Minister of Public Works and Labour, Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Coloniz- ation, Mines and Fisheries, Minister of Lands and Forests, Minister of Roads, Minister of Municipal Affairs, and one or more ministers without portfolio. French civil law is the basis of civil law in the province. In the House of Commons of Canada Quebec is represented by sixty-five members, and in the Senate by twenty-four senators. Local Self-Government *—Municipal government in the province is administered under the Municipal Code, the latest edition of which TT ¥ Revised by the Department of Municipal Affairs, Quebec.

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