Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1896934455

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-236504

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 1

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: LI, 568 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part II. The executive Government

Collection:: Economics Books

CHAP. TV] THE GOVERNOR AS HEAD 245 of the ministers in connexion with land transactions in favour ultimately of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. These transactions were deemed to have been prejudicial to the interests of the Province, and the position of the Premier personally was weakened by accusations that he had allowed the Government to give a contract to a firm of which he was a member at a time when he had seen tenders submitted by other firms. The Premier justified the position that his firm could accept contracts from the provincial Government, and asserted that it was perfectly proper to do so just as it was perfectly proper for the Attorney-General of the pro- vince to take steps to secure the passing of private Bills. After being sustained on one issue by the casting vote of the Speaker, the Government were eventually defeated, and intended to secure a dissolution from the Lieutenant- Governor. This, however, was not conceded, and on June 1 it transpired that the Lieutenant-Governor had dismissed the Ministry, giving as ground for doing so his dissatisfaction with the attitude adopted by the Premier on the question of Government contracts. Mr. McBride then consented to accept office, and determined that politics should be carried on on purely Dominion party lines, with the result that at the ensuing general election he secured a small but adequate majority on Conservative party lines, and has since that date maintained his position with ever-increasing strength.

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