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

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Title:: Part V. Imperial control over dominion administration and legislation // Chapter II. Imperial control over the inernal affairs of the dominions

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SHAP. 11] CONTROL OVER INTERNAL AFFAIRS 1051 It is, of course, easy to censure the Governments which determined to leave these vast areas of land to the free disposal of the young community ; the lands were not the things to give away, in the opinion of Lord Durham, and it may be said that to grant them absolutely to small com- munities was merely to discourage expansion by settlement and immigration, for those communities were not specially anxious to spend the revenue accruing from the lands in the effort to secure larger populations, which would interfere in some degree with rates of wages and the prospects of those in the country. Moreover, Canada has not adopted the British ideas in dealing with the land in the new provinces ; Manitoba received no public lands when it was created, and if a more generous arrangement was made in 1885? it was merely to transfer a portion of the lands, those known as swamp lands, to the jurisdiction of the province; Alberta and Saskatchewan received no lands, and the Dominion thus has had the responsibility of settling the North-West. It has been argued often of late 2 that the system has been improvident, that lands should have been retained in the ownership of the Imperial Government and used by that Government for the settlement of the indigent popu- lation of the British Islands. It is also pointed out that though Canada has now adopted a vigorous policy of en- couraging immigration, still it offers very good terms not merely to British settlers but also to settlers from the United States, and that it builds up Canada with a population which is in large measure alien, even if it becomes Canadian by naturalization, and that it tends to weaken the British connexion in Canada. In the case of Australia stress is laid on the fact that the Governments there do so little for immigration, that before the proceeds and control of the ' See Canada Act 48 & 49 Vict. ¢. 50; Manitoba Act 49 Vict. c. 38; Attorney-General for Manitoba v. Attorney-General for Canada, 34 8. C. R. 287; [1904] A. C. 799; cf. Canada Gazette, xliv. 3210-2: Manitoba Free Press, March 24, 1911. * The older discussions in Earl Grey, Colonial Policy of Lord John Russell's Administration, and in Adderley’s Colonial Policy, are of value.

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