Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

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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:: 1896935052

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-238139

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 2

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XI Seiten, Seiten 570-1100

Digitisation:: 2022

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Title:: Part IV. The federations and the union // Chapter I. The dominion of Canada

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CHAP. 1] THE DOMINION OF CANADA 689 bion : on this matter the Imperial Government expressly declined to give any opinion when the question was mentioned by the Dominion Government! The end of the whole matter has been, however, that in 1908 the Courts of British Columbia 2 decided that the Provincial Act of that year against Asiatic immigration was invalid as regards Japanese because it contravened the provisions of the Act of 1907 (6 & 7 Edw. VIL. c. 50), by which the Parliament of Canada ratified the adherence of Canada to the treaty with Japan of 1894 under the special protocol negotiated for the Dominion by the Imperial Government, and which allowed the Japanese free entrance into Canada, and as regards all other Asiatics because it was not consistent with the requirement of the law of Canada regarding immigration that under certain circum- stances every immigrant who had not been rejected by the medical inspector for the Dominion should be allowed to land. This provision is not indeed one which was framed with any intention of it regulating the question of Oriental Immigration ; it seems to have been intended to prevent the occurrence of cases of detention for improper purposes by captains of vessels, and it is satisfactory that it should have incidentally served so useful a purpose. Ib is very doubtful, in view of this decision, whether much useful pur- pose will ever be served by a province attempting to legislate regarding the question of immigration. Normally legislation restricting immigration has been simply disallowed, as being Contrary to Dominion policy, and in any case possibly Invalid, (8) Education Education, on which the provinces have certain exclusive Powers, but subject to definite restrictions, has formed a subiect of great difficulty because of the vexed question of : ’ 2. * Lord Derby, May 31, 1884; Lefroy, op. cit., pp. 258, 259, 400 note = Provincial Legislation, 1867-95, pp. 1092-4. As to immigration ot see Sir J. Thompson, ibid. pp. 634, 635. * Canadian Annual Torin 1908, p. 541; in re Nakane and Okazake. \3B. C. 370; in re Behari Lal et al., 13 B, C. 415. 1279-2 i"

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