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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Identifikator:: 1896934455

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-236504

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

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 1

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: LI, 568 Seiten

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part II. The executive Government

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crap. ir] THE GOVERNOR AND MINISTERS 149 of remaining behind the scenes. If he remains a full term of office he can gain more and more the confidence of Govern- ments and increase his influence. Moreover, that influence will normally be for good, for he stands above lesser party feeling, and he is member of a community which has greater interests and produces greater men than can be expected from a Dominion in the present stage of development. Moreover, besides the field of politics he has all the fields of arts, science, literature, open to him, and of recent Governors it may suffice to name Sir William Macgregor as one who at once dealt with great success with a difficult position in Newfoundland and earned a reputation for learning of much depth and variety! while Sir Thomas Carmichael distin- guished himself no less by his tact and political skill than by continuing in Victoria his entomological studies. The influence of the Governor-Generals of Canada has been varied and lasting : in their own ways, men like Lord Dufferin, Lord Lansdowne, Lord Aberdeen, Lord Minto, and Lord Grey impressed themselves on the national life.2 But these considerations are matters in which definite statement is impossible : they may be sufficient to show how very far from the true view Mr. Goldwin Smith’s statement must be deemed to have been. It must be noted that the Governor of a self-governing Dominion is, like his Crown Colony brother, legally by no means in the hands of his ministers. It is true that in the case of the Federations and of the Union he is advised in his duties by an Executive Council created by statute : the same remark applies to the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec, where the creation of such councils by statute was rendered necessary by the division of the Province of Canada into these provinces. On the other hand, the Executive Councils * He was appointed Chancellor of the new University of Queensland in 1910, and has since been unceasing in work for its advancement. * Lord Grey's tour to Hudson Bay is an indication of one side of a modern Governor's activity in the interests of his Government and the Dominion. Similarly Lord Dufferin greatly aided his Government in their dealings with British Columbia in connexion with the Pacific Railway by his tour to the West.

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