314 THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [PART II
It would be tedious to give in detail the changes of minis-
terial offices in the provinces. In Ontario there are now,
in 1911, in addition to the Premier, who is President of the
Council, the Attorney-General, Minister of Education,
Minister of Public Works, Minister of Lands, Forests and
Mines, Secretary, Treasurer, Minister of Agriculture, and
three ministers without portfolio. In that province the minis-
terial salary is six thousand dollars, the Premier receiving
nine thousand, which compares with seven thousand dollars
in Canada for ministers, where since 1905 political pensions
have been provided and a salary for the leader of the Oppo-
sition, Mr. Borden. In Quebec there is a Premier and
Attorney-General, Minister of Lands and Forests, Provincial
Treasurer, Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Public Works
and Labour, Provincial Secretary, Minister of Colonization,
Mines, and Fisheries, and two ministers without portfolio.
The ministerial salary is six thousand dollars. In Nova Scotia
the number of the Executive Council is fixed at nine? of whom
only three have portfolios with salaries of five thousand
dollars a year, and an additional thousand for the Premier :
these are the Premier and Provincial Secretary, Attorney-
General, and Commissioner of Mines and Public Works. In
New Brunswick, where nine is the maximum, the Premier is
Attorney-General, and there are the Provincial Secretary and
Receiver-General, Surveyor-General, Chief Commissioner of
Public Works, Commissioner for Agriculture, President of
the Council, and Solicitor-General, of whom the President is
unpaid, and the salaries of the rest vary from two thousand
one hundred to seventeen hundred dollars, with twelve
hundred for the Solicitor-General. In Manitoba the Presi-
dent of the Council, who is Premier, holds also the posts of
Minister of Agriculture and Immigration, Commissioner of
Railways, and Commissioner of Provincial Lands; there are
also a Provincial Treasurer, a Minister of Public Works, an
Attornev-General, a Provincial Secretary, and a Municipal
* The high position of the Attorney-General is common in nearly all the
Dominions, and is one point of contrast with the practice in the United
Kingdom, t Rew. Stat.. 1900. c. 9.
