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 II. The executive Government

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cHAP. viI] CABINET SYSTEM IN DOMINIONS 313 relations with the United States of America.l This depart- ment resembles, moreover, the corresponding department in the Commonwealth, for like that department it deals with the correspondence passing with the Secretary of State for the Colonies as well as with matters of external interest properly so called. In 1879 the office of Receiver- General was abolished and the duties assigned to the finance minister. At the same time the department of public works was divided into two separate departments presided over by two ministers, one designated Minister of Railways and Canals, and the other Minister of Public Works. The changes in the department were rendered necessary by the constitution of the Canadian Pacific Railway, which threw much responsibility upon the departments of the Government. In 1884 the Ministry of Marine and Fisheries was divided into two subsections of marine and fisheries administered by one minister and two deputies, but the arrangement was revoked in 1892, to be again restored in a different form in 1910, when the development of the Canadian navy required the redivision of the ministry under two deputy heads, with powers extending, the one over marine and fisheries, the other over the new navy. Moreover, it was decided in 1909 to create a Minister of Labour as an independent branch of the Govern- ment.2 The Ministry thus in 1911 consisted of the Prime Minister, who was President of the Privy Council, the Minister of Trade and Commerce, the Secretary of State, the Minister of Militia and Defence, the Minister of Agriculture, the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Customs, the Minister of Justice, the Minister of Inland Revenue and of Mines, the Minister of Railways and Canals, the Minister of Marine and Fisheries and of the Naval Service, the Minister of Public Works, the Minister of the Interior, the Postmaster-General, the Minister of Labour, and the Solicitor-General, a member of the Ministrv but not of the Cabinet. ! See the First Annual Report of the Secretary of State for External Affairs, Canada Sess. Pap., 1910, No. 29b. De facto the Prime Minister is very much the Minister for External Affairs, $8 See Parl. Pap., Cd. 5135, p. 11.

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