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 XV. The Governor-General

Collection:: Economics Books

APPOINTS LIEUTENANT-GOVERNORS. 178 6. POWERS AS REGARDS THE PROVINCES. Lieutenant-Governors of the Provinces are appointed by Appoint- the Governor-General in Council by Commission under the Lieute- Great Seal of Canada. In case of the absence, illness or other nent-Go inability of the Lieutenant-Governor, the Governor-General may appoint an administrator to execute the duties of the office’. By section 59 of the British North America Act a Removal Lieutenant-Governor is not “ removable within five years from Silage his appointment except for cause assigned, which shall be Yornors- communicated to him in writing within one month after the order for removal is made, and shall be communicated by message to the Senate and to the House of Commons within one week thereafter if the Parliament is then sitting, and if not, then within one week after the commencement of the next session of the Parliament.” The section is silent as to the circumstances under which the removal of a Lieutenant- Governor would be justifiable, but the Letellier case may be Leteliier taken to have established the rule that the Governor-General Case. ought to act by and with the advice of his ministers. The facts of the case were shortly these’:—In 1878 the Lieutenant- Governor of Quebec, M. Letellier, dismissed his ministers on the ground that they had acted contrary to his representa- tions, were encouraging a lavish expenditure in regard to railways, and had promoted a bill which he deemed to be an arbitrary and illegal infringement of vested rights. The subject was brought before the Governor-General by both sides, and a petition praying for the Lieutenant-Governor’s dismissal was addressed to the Governor-General in Council by certain members of the dismissed ministry. The Governor- General communicated the petition and the statement of the Licutenant-Governor to the Senate and the House of Commons. 1 For form of Commission, see Can. Sess. Journ. 1878, p. 175. ? See Todd. p. 405, for a more detailed account.

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