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-

Collection:: Economics Books

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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

Collection:: Economics Books

CHAP. IV] THE GOVERNOR AS HEAD 227 view was on the 19th February, and that Bill was before the Legislature several days before that date, without the Lieutenant-Governor having been in any way informed of it by his advisers. The Lieutenant-Governor expressed at that time to the Premier how much he regretted that legislation ; he repre- sented to him that he considered it contrary to the principles of law and justice ; notwithstanding that, the measure was carried through both Houses until adopted. It is true that the Premier gives in his letter, as one of the reasons for acting as he did, ‘ that this permission of using the name of the representative of the Crown had, besides, always been granted him by the predecessor of the present Lieutenant-Governor, the late lamented Mr. Caron.’ This reason cannot be one for the Lieutenant-Governor, for in so acting he would have abdicated his position as representative of the Crown, which act neither the Lieutenant- Governor nor the Premier could reconcile with the obligations of the Lieutenant-Governor towards the Crown. The Lieutenant-Governor regrets having to state, as he told the Premier, that he has not been informed, in general, in an explicit manner of the measures adopted by the cabinet, although the Lieutenant-Governor had often given the Premier an opportunity to do so, especially during last year. From time to time, since the last session of the Legislature, the Lieutenant-Governor has drawn the attention of the Premier to several subjects regarding the interests of the Province of Quebec, amongst others : Ist. The enormous expenditure occasioned by very large subsidies to several railways, while the Province was burdened with the construction of the great railway from Quebec to Ottawa, which should take precedence of the others; and this, when the state of our finances obliged us to undertake loans disproportioned to our revenue. 2nd. The necessity of reducing the expenses of the Civil Government and of the Legislature, instead of having recourse to new taxes, in view of avoiding financial embarrass- ment, The Lieutenant-Governor expressed also, but with regret, to the Premier, that the Orders passed in Council to increase the salaries of Civil Service servants seemed to him inop- portune, at a time when the Government were negotiating with the Bank of Montreal a loan of half a million, with power to increase that loan to $1,000,000, at a rate of 02

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