Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

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Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

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Title:: Part I. Introductory

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54 RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT [PART I thinks fit. The Legislative Assembly Act of the Province, 1909, c. 2 provides that there shall be eligible for election and voting in the Assembly any person ‘ being a member of the Executive Council, or holding any of the following offices, that is to say, President or Chairman of the Council, Attorney-General, Provincial Secretary, Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Public Works, Minister of Educa-~ tion, or the minister or head of any other public department that may hereafter be organized by statute, of this Province’. Yet though there is so little of legal sanction the system of responsible government is in fullest operation throughout the Dominion of Canada. The maxims which regulate the tenure of office by a Government in this country are faith- fully observed as much as in the Colonies generally, despite one or two cases of straining of constitutional forms, which, however, have been punished in one way or the other. It is established usage that a Lieutenant-Governor must govern with the support of a ministry, who again must have the support of the Legislative Assembly, and that ministers will retire when they are defeated, unless they ask for and receive a dissolution of Parliament. It would be idle to claim that there is any clear distinction between the basis of self-government in the Provinces of Canada and the case of English self-government, and Chief Justice Higinbotham would never have made the statutory basis of self-govern- ment in the Colonies a basis of discrimination had he known the facts of Canadian history. Of course, as in the case of England, self-government is enforced by certain ultimate sanctions. The chief one in the Provinces, where there is no question, as in the Mother Country, of the needs of defence, is of course the requirement of an Appropriation Act annually, and the refusal of such an Act will always be successful in causing a Lieutenant- Governor to yield : indeed, it is certain that he would now be dismissed by the Dominion Government long before anything so drastic took place, as the case of Mr. McInnes in 1900 shows.! In the case of a Colony the same rule 4 Canada Sess. Pap., 1900, No. 174.

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