The Constitution of Canada

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Identifikator:: 1895543282

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-242408

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Munro, Joseph Edwin Crawford http://d-nb.info/gnd/1113111038

Title:: The Constitution of Canada

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: Univ. Press

Year of publication:: 1889

Scope:: XXXVI, 356 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter XI. The Dominion Parliament

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114 THE DOMINION PARLIAMENT. then placed on the table and the House adjourns to the fol- lowing day. Upon its re-assembling the Usher of the Black Rod again desires its attendance in the Senate chamber. The Speaker-elect then informs the Governor-General of his election and claims for the House “all their undoubted rights and privileges.” The Speaker of the Senate on behalf of his Excellency replies that “he fully confides in the duty and attachment of the House of Commons to Her Majesty's person and government and upon all occasions will recognize and allow their constitutional privileges.” Approval In the English House of Commons the choice of a Speaker Yn, is “confirmed and approved” by the Crown. This course was followed in some of the Legislatures of the old provinces; but when in 1827 Lord Dalhousie, then Governor-General, refused to approve the election of Mr Papineau as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada, the Assembly passed a resolution declaring the action of the Governor- General to be unconstitutional, as the Act constituting the Legislature did not require the choice of Speaker to be ap- proved by the Governor-General. The form of approval remained in force in Upper and Lower Canada until the anion of the two provinces in 1841, but the Act of Union is silent on the point. After the delivery of the usual speech by the Governor- General the members return to their own House, the Speaker after taking the chair informs the House that the usual privileges had been granted to the House by the Governor- General. The reports of Judges and returns of the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery respecting elections are then pre- sented, and in accordance with the custom prevailing in the English House of Commons a bill is read a first time pro forma, in order to assert the right of the House to deal with any business it may think right to discuss before proceeding to the consideration of the matters contained in the speech.

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