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

Collection:: Economics Books

120 THE DOMINION PARLIAMENT. adjournment, as the Canadian Parliament has not adopted the rule that the speeches should be relevant to the question of adjournment. Proroga- Hon. [ts effect. 8. PROROGATION. In Canada Parliament is usually prorogued by the Governor-General in person. As soon as the business of the two Houses is completed, the Governor-General, through his secretary, and with the advice of his ministers, informs the Speaker of each House that at a certain hour on a given day he will prorogue Parliament. The Commons are sum- moned in the usual manner to attend in the Senate chamber, and after assent is given to bills that have been passed, the Governor-General delivers the customary speech in English and French. At the conclusion of the speech the Speaker declares that :— «Tt is his Excellency the Governor-General’s will and pleasure that this Parliament be prorogued until —— and to be then here holden; and this Parliament is accordingly prorogued until —— ” The fact of the prorogation is also notified in the “Canada Gazette.” The effect of the prorogation is to put an end to the session. Proceedings on all bills pending in either House cease to have any effect, and such bills will require to be introduced again and go through all the necessary stages in the following session. Where a session ends unexpect- edly it is customary as in England to protect parties promoting private bills, and by a series of resolutions to permit such bills to be advanced in the following session by unopposed motions to the stages at which they stood when the proro- gation took place” All committees, standing or select. are dissolved by the prorogation. 1 Burinot, p. 236.

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