Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

Bibliographic data

Multivolume work

Identifikator:: 1896933912

Document type:: Multivolume work

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

Usage license:: Get license information via the feedback formular.

Volume

Identifikator:: 1896934455

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

Document type:: Volume

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

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

Usage license:: Get license information via the feedback formular.

Chapter

Document type:: Multivolume work

Structure type:: Chapter

Title:: Part II. The executive Government

Collection:: Economics Books

230 THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [PART II vene in Dominion politics by helping his party in Quebec in view of the elections of 1878. he said -—1 Notwithstanding the purchase of the Speaker a vote of want of confidence was passed in the Legislative Assembly, and a similar resolution was adopted in the Upper House. Mr. Joly, however, did not resign as he ought to have done, and as the Lieutenant-Governor ought to have called upon him to do. He held to office and proceeded with the business of the country. He succeeded in carrying the supplies, and the fact of his having done so is quoted as a proof of the substantial confidence of the House in him. But the refusal of supplies is an antiquated procedure, and has long since been succeeded in England by votes of want of confi- dence, and for the same reasons which induced the Opposition at Quebec to vote the supplies. The refusal to do so would have clogged the whole machinery of Government, would have stopped the construction of the Government railways and ruined the contractors, and at a time of great depression would have deprived very many working men of the means of subsistence. The Opposition therefore patriotically deemed it wise, while persisting in their expression of want of confidence, not to obstruct the whole business of the country. During the whole of the legislative existence of Mr. Joly he has thus been carrying on the Government by the improper partisanship of the Lieutenant-Governor, and the casting vote of a Speaker purchased with his connivance. In the session of the Dominion Parliament of 1878 the conduct of Mr. Letellier was brought before the House of Commons by Sir John Macdonald, the leader of the Opposition, who moved the following resolution :— "That the recent dismissal by the Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Quebec of his Ministry was, under the circumstances, unwise and subversive of the position accorded to the advisers of the Crown since the concession of the principle of responsible Government to the British North American Colonies.’ On reference to the debates, it will be seen that Mr. Mac- kenzie’s Government did not defend Mr. Letellier’s action, although they supported their old colleague by a vote of 112 to 70. During the same session the Senate passed by a vote of 37 to 20 the following resolution :— ‘That the messages of his Excellency the Governor- General of the 26th March and 8th April be now read, and * Parl, Pap., C. 2445, pp. 107-9,

Access restriction

Copyright

fullscreen: Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

Multivolume work

Volume

Chapter

Table of contents

Download

Volume

Chapter

This page

Image fragment

Citation links

Citation recommendation