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-

Collection:: Economics Books

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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

Collection:: Economics Books

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

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732 THE FEDERATIONS AND THE UNION [PART Iv views of the Imperial Government, an Ontario Act of 1908 which inter alia made it illegal for a chartered accountant to describe himself as such in the province was disallowed, though it was re-enacted promptly in 1910 (c. 79) in identical terms, was disallowed and reappears on the statute hooks in 1911. A British Columbia Act was also criticized on this ground by the Imperial Government in 1905.1 The Dominion control is in the main exercised through formal disallowance rather than by withholding assent or reservation, and no detailed instructions for reservation have so far been issued, though the Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba asked for them in 1876. The need for reservation is not great in a country where there are no long distances in time between the provinces and the head-quarters of government, and it would seldom be convenient for the Lieutenant-Governors to refuse assent straightway. At any rate, the Lieutenant-Governors of Ontario and Quebec seem never now to refuse assent, and very rarely to reserve : indeed, in Ontario disallowance has been unknown. In Nova Scotia, on the other hand, the Lieutenant-Governor five times in the years 1874-9 refused his assent, and in New Brunswick the same course was taken in 1870, 1871, and 1872 by one Lieutenant-Governor, and in 1877 and 1879 by another. Todd ? obtained from the Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia his explanations of his action, which was due to the desire of ministers to avoid infringing upon the sphere laid open to them by the British North America Act. On the Bills having passed both Houses, there were found, on close examination, serious defects which would have rendered it undesirable for him to assent. Otherwise they would have been disallowed, an inconvenient proceeding, while reservation would have meant throwing on the Dominion authorities a duty really incumbent on the Pro- vincial Government of seeing that it did not really transgress the limit pointed by the constitution. Thus in 187 3, when the Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario on advice reserved two ! See Provincial Legislation, 1904-8, p. 159 ; above, p. 708. Parliamentary Government in the British Colonies, pp. 395, 396.

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