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Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Identifikator:: 1689851430

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-101704

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Fonck, Leopold http://d-nb.info/gnd/116647019

Title:: Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten

Edition:: 3. Aufl., Neudruck d. 2. Aufl., 7.-8. Tsd

Place of publication:: Innsbruck

Publisher:: Rauch

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: XII, 396 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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334 THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [PART IT plete means of keeping a Governor informed of the important acts of his Ministry. A Governor should always be present at such meetings if it is at all possible. In the case of Newfoundland also the same practice is followed, and in all these instances no matter is expected to be brought before the Governor, of other than formal moment, with which he has not been made aware before- hand, in order that he may have an opportunity of consider- ing whether or not the question is one in which his consent should be withheld. The withholding of consent is, of course, governed by the principle stated on March 13, 191 1, in the House of Commons that except on legal or on Imperial grounds the refusal of assent means that the Governor is prepared to obtain other ministers to replace those which he has atthe time, if they insist, as may be the case, on resigning their offices. In the case of the Dominion of Canada the presence in Council! of the Governor-General is now practically unknown, except on formal occasions, such as the Proclamation of the Royal Accession or other cases of high ceremonial, but the same control is assured by the practice of transacting all the important business of the Government in Council, and of requiring that each Order in Council should be submitted for the Governor-General’s sanction before it can take effect. The chief occasion on which sanction to such Orders in Council has been refused is, of course, that with regard to the appointments proposed to be made by Sir Charles Tupper after his defeat at the general election of 1896, before he actually left office. But the practice secures to the Governor- General an adequate means both of knowing what is being transacted and of asserting his control over it ; thus, for example, it would be impossible for the Dominion Govern- ment to dismiss an official without the Governor-General’s ' So also in the provinces, which likewise adopt the practice of the Lieutenant-Governor signing the Orders in Council. See Canada Sess. Pap., 1877, No. 13, p. 8. The Governor once sat with ministers even in Cabinet ; see Walrond, Letters and Journals of Lord Elgin, p. 116. * Canada Sess, Pap., 1896, Sess. 2, No. 7. In 1908 the appointments proposed by the Provincial Government of New Brunswick were likcwise refused ; above pp. 220, 329, note 3.

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