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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CHAP, Iv] THE GOVERNOR AS HEAD 231 that it be resolved that the course adopted by the Lieutenant- Governor of the Province of Quebec towards his late Ministry was at variance with the constitutional principles upon which Responsible Government should be conducted.’ Then came on last autumn the general election for the Parliament of the Dominion, and among the many questions submitted to the people, one of the most prominent was the conduct of Mr. Letellier, and the votes of the two Houses of Parliament with respect to it. In the Province of Quebec it was the question of the day, and the opinion of the electors may be known by the return of 48 gentlemen pledged to Mr. Letellier’s condemnation against 17 supporters. When the present session of Parliament met, Mr. Mousseau, a repre- sentative from Quebec, brought forward a motion identical in its terms with that moved in the previous session by Sir John Macdonald, and it was carried by a vote of 136 to 51 members. The analysis of this vote sufficiently shows that the general condemnation of Mr. Letellier’s conduct was not confined to his own Province. Under these circumstances the Governor-General’s advisers thought it their duty to convey to his Excellency their opinion that after the Senate’s resolution of last session, and the vote of the House of Commons during the present session, Mr. Letellier’s usefulness was gone, and they advised his removal ; and now the whole question stands for the con- sideration of Her Majesty’s Government on the Governor- General’s reference. Tt is necessary now to consider the tenure of office by Lieutenant-Governors appointed under British North America Act, 1867. When the resolutions on which that Act was based were being prepared it was thought expedient to continue in the Dominion the English practice with respect to Colonial Governors. This might have been done without legislative enactment, but to prevent the possibility of its being supposed that Lieutenant-Governors under the new régime were of necessity to be in sympathy with the Dominion Ministry of the day, and to be removable with every change of party, the provision in the 59th clause was introduced which says that no Lieutenant-Governor shall be removable within five years of his appointment except for cause assigned, which shall be communicated within one month after the order for removal is made, and shall be communicated by message to the Senate and House of Commons. This left the tenure to be one of pleasure as before, but

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