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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cuar. vii] CABINET SYSTEM IN DOMINIONS 335 formal sanction, as in the case of the termination in 1904 of the appointment of Lord Dundonald for insubordination as head of the Militia of Canada. The Governor’s relation with his Ministry must needs be a very close and confidential relation, and it is obviously the duty of both sides to see that it shall be as cordial as possible. It is not, of course, the right of the Governor to require information from his ministers of all the measures they propose to adopt : that was formally laid down long ago,! though lack of such information was one of the grounds on which Mr. L. Letellier dismissed his ministers in Quebec in 1878,2 and something of the same kind influenced the decision of the Governor of the Cape in dismissing the Molteno Ministry in the same year.® But the Governor ought to be on such terms with the Premier that he will normally discuss with him his legislative plans and projects : he need not discuss his party politics with the Governor, but he should keep him well informed of all public matters of any importance. He may obtain from a Governor with whom he is in close touch much useful advice : there are many Gover- nors who have experience far exceeding that of their Premiers, and in any case a first-hand knowledge of what is going on is essential to the discharge of the duty of the Governor as an Imperial officer. But while in these matters the question is in the end one of courtesy and the co-operation which is essential between the head of the Government and the representative of the Sovereign, the matter is different when the Governor is called upon to perform any official act whatever : he is then entitled to the fullest information which he can desire : there is nothing that can properly be kept back from him, and to withhold information is conduct which would justly deserve the severest censure. It does not matter that the Governor will normally act on the advice of his ministers : 4 he must be allowed to decide if he will * See Lord Carnarvon’s dispatch to Sir G. Bowen, November 20, 1864, in Queensland Legislative Assembly Votes, 1867, p. 64. 2 Parl. Pap., C. 2445. * 1bid., C. 2079, $ Cf, Fulton v. Norton, [1908] A. C. 451.

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