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 III. The Parliaments of the Dominions

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460 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [rar rit documents. But in the session of 1844-5 the Speaker refused a motion written in French, on the ground that to receive it would be a violation of the Union Act, and on an appeal to the House his decision was upheld. In 1848 the provisions of the Union Act in this regard were repealed : the measure had been urged by three successive Governors- General, and when an address from the Legislative Assembly was sent in 1845 the Imperial Government by a dispatch from Mr. Gladstone of February 3, 1846, promised repeal, which was defended by Lord Grey in the House of Lords as being proper, on the principle of allowing all their local concerns to be regulated according to the wishes and feelings of the people of Canada. Lord Elgin had the pleasure of announcing the decision of the Imperial Parliament in his speech on opening the Legislature on January 18, 1849, for it was a measure which he had urged energetically upon the consideration of the Imperial Government. S. 133 of the British North America Act provides that either the English or the French language may be used by any person in the debates of the Houses of the Parliament of the Dominion of Canada and of the Houses of the Legislature of Quebec, and both those languages shall be used in the respective records and journals of the Houses, and either of those languages may be used by any person or in any pleading Or process in or issuing from any Court of Canada established under the Act and in or from all or any of the Courts of Quebec. The Acts of the Parliament of Canada and of the Legislature of Quebec are to be printed in both these lan- guages. Under this provision everything in the Canadian Parliament is duplicated and issued in French as well as in English : the statutes and the Bills alike are printed in both languages, and recently steps have been taken to accelerate the rapidity of the French version of the proceedings, but the sessions of 1910 and 1911 opened as usual with complaints of delay by Mr. Landry, and amendment was promised. The expense is large, and the utility of much of the printing nal. ! Houston, Constitutional Documents of Canada, pp. 162, 175, 183, 213; cf. Pope, Sir John Macdonald, ii. 249, 250 ; Imperial Act 11 & 12 Vict. ¢. 56.5. 1. For Lord Durham’s policy, sce Report, pp. 110 seq.

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