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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CHAP. 1) THE DOMINION OF CANADA 651 The Dominion now contains two further provinces, for in 1905 its power was used to carve out from its territories Alberta and Saskatchewan with full provincial rights subject to certain minor modifications : there had been since 1897 modified provincial rights in the territories now erected into provinces, but the real provincial status dates only from 1905 (4 & 5 Edw. VII, cc. 3 and 42). Besides the nine Provincial Governments there is the Government of the Yukon, which is midway between the provincial status and the status of the Government of the North-Western territories. § 2. THE PROVINCES AND THE DOMINION The Dominion is a self-governing Colony in the technical sense of the term, and the provinces are only parts of such a Colony, and therefore as entities in the colonial system the provinces disappeared entirely with the creation of the Federation. Nothing marks more clearly the position of the Provinces than that the executive head of the province, the Lieutenant-Governor, is appointed by and paid by the Dominion Government, and the legislative enactments of the Provincial Legislatures are subject to disallowance by the Dominion Government. Moreover, the Provincial Government receives no recognition from the Imperial Government ; the Agents-General of the provinces in London receive none of the official status accorded to the Agents-General of the Australian states even after federa- tion and to the High Commissioner of Canada; while the title * Honourable ’ is restricted to Executive Councillors while such, and to the President of the Council and Speaker of the Assembly while in office. Then, again, for all purposes of law the Governor-General of Canada is, in virtue of the I nlerpretation Act, 1889, the Governor of a Colony, and no function of a Governor under an Imperial Act falls upon a Lieutenant-Governor in a Canadian province. On the o intention to federate urged by Sir R. Bond's and Sir E. Morris’s supporters. ony doubted locally if a change of position would be beneficial, and as Py N as the Colony is prosperous federation is not probable. See also wse, History of Newfoundland, pp. 494. 495.

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