Die Sozialversicherung in der Union der Sozialistischen Sowjetrepubliken

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Identifikator:: 1798241552

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-183158

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Bychovskij, N.I. http://d-nb.info/gnd/108952613X

Title:: Die Sozialversicherung in der Union der Sozialistischen Sowjetrepubliken

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Neuer Dt. Verl.

Year of publication:: 1925

Scope:: 22 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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CHAP. IV] THE GOVERNOR AS HEAD 235 the people of Canada can require is that the Governor-General for the time being should always act upon the advice of Ministers responsible to him. The right of discussion and the power of censure rest practically with the Imperial House of Commons, and have been not infrequently exercised there. So in the Province of Quebec its legislature and people are bound to receive the nominee of the Governor-General, and so long as their constitutional rights are protected have nothing to say against his recall for any cause whatever. If Mr. Letellier were removed his successor must accept the Ministry which he finds enjoying the confidence of the Legis- lature, and so long as this constitutional right is preserved it matters not to them who may be their Lieutenant-Governor. It rests with the Dominion Parliament to approve or dis- approve of a change in the personnel in the Lieutenant- Governorship. The distinction seems to have been fully observed in the Province of Quebec during the late Local and Dominion elections. It must be borne in mind that the constituencies and the franchise are the same for both elec- tions, and the same body of electors which when the question constitutionally before them was the comparative merits of the De Boucherville and Joly administrations divided in nearly equal numbers returned to the Dominion Parlia- ment 48 as against 17, or a majority of 31 pledged to vote for the censure of Mr. Letellier’s conduct in the place where it alone could be constitutionally impugned. After full and anxious consideration his Excellency’s ad- visers desire to express their strong conviction that it is highly expedient that the vote of Parliament should be given effect to by the dismissal of Mr. Letellier. If it is not, a Provincial Lieutenant-Governor will be the only practically irresponsible official in Canada. On the other hand, his removal will be a warning to all future Lieutenant-Governors to exercise their powers as such with the strictest impartiality. As Mr. Letellier has been the first, in the case of his removal he will probably be the last partisan Lieutenant-Governor, and all further trouble from that source may be considered as at an end. His fate will be a warning to others for all time to come. Again, they are convinced that peace and contentment will not be restored in the Province of Quebec so long as he retains his present position ; and lastly, they think that a Ministry enjoying the confidence of Her Majesty’s representative and a large majority of both Houses of Parliament and administering all the affairs of Canada, whether of a legislative or executive character, and including

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