122 THE DOMINION PARLIAMENT.

above summed up the position as follows: —“I quite admit
that when a Council is backed by a majority of the House
a Governor is bound in ordinary cases to follow their advice
and that it is chiefly by his influence and persuasion that he
must endeavour to direct their conduct, but the premier would
place a Governor in the same position as the Queen, and the
Council in the position of the Cabinet at home, forgetting
entirely that the Governor is himself responsible to the home
government and that it is no excuse for him to say in answer
to any charge against his administration of affairs, I did so
by the advice of my Council.”
The Parliament is also dissolved by lapse of time, as the
British North America Act, s. 50, provides that, subject to
the above-mentioned power of dissolution by the Governor-General,
 every House of Commons shall continue for five
years from the day of the return of the writs for choosing
the House.
Demise of ~~ The Canadian Parliament is not affected by the demise
hoOrown: of the Crown, an Act to that effect® having been passed in
the first session of the Parliament of the Dominion.

Lapse of
bime.

« Todd, p. 537.

2 R.8.C.e. 11,8. 1,