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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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

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

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758 THE FEDERATIONS AND THE UNION [PART Iv only surrendered the railway lands, including, according to a recent decision of the Privy Council, water rights over such lands, but not the precious metals therein. The provinces which did not receive the land revenue were compensated by additional grants, and Prince Edward Island, which had no lands, received a subsidy for the buying out of the proprietors.! Finally, after long agitation? the Canadian Government decided in 1907 to make a new arrangement, and to increase the grants to the provinces, and this was done, as was necessary, by an Imperial Act of 1907 (c. 11), which fixed the grant as follows: (a) a fixed grant according to population : where that is under 150,000 a grant of $100,000, where not exceeding 200,000, $150,000 ; where not exceeding 400,000, $180,000 ; where not exceeding 800,000, $190,000; where not exceeding 1,500,000, $220,000; where over 1,500,000, $240,000. (b) A grant at the rate of eighty cents per head of the population of the province up to 2,500,000, and at the rate of sixty cents per head of so much of the population as exceeds that number. An additional grant of $100,000 was made to British Columbia for ten years in view of its ex- ceptional needs for development, while each of the provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta received a grant of $93,750 a year for five years in lieu of land revenue. in order to pro- vide public buildings. The change was interesting because of certain of the pro- ceedings which led up to it. When an agreement had been arrived at in Canada in 1906, the Province of British Columbia sent over its Premier. Mr. McBride. to endeavour to induce On the long question of provincial rights of land, subsidies, &e., see Canada Sess. Pap., 1885, No. 34 ; Rev. Stat., 1906, cc. 28 and 99 ; for British Colurubia, see Willison, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, i. 369-408; for Manitoba, Canada Gazette, xliv. 3210-2 ; Manitoba Sess. Pap., 1910, pp. 107 seq. * Canadian Annual Review, 1905, pp. 314-21, 333, 387; 1907, pp. 605 seq. The Conservative policy demands the lands for Manitoba, Saskatche- wan, and Alberta. In 1885 Manitoba received the swamp lands. The financial terms with each of the new provinces are set out in the Constitution Acts of 1870 (33 Vict. ¢. 3, s. 30) and 1905 (4 & 5 Edw. VIL cc. 3 and 42, ss, 18-20). On the limits of the powers to tax the lands of the two new provinces, cf. BR. v. Canadian Pacific Railway Co., [19117 A. C. 328.

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