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

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CHAP, 1] THE DOMINION OF CANADA 653 & number for the other provinces based on the decennial census. The original House consisted of 181 members, of whom eighty-two were for Ontario, nineteen for Nova Scotia, and fifteen for New Brunswick. The changes in population, and the addition of new provinces which are represented in the House of Commons under the Imperial Act of 1871, have changed the proportions, and there were, after 1905 saw the addition of two new provinces, then in the House eighty-six members for Ontario, sixty-five for Quebec, eighteen for Nova Scotia, thirteen for New Bruns- wick, ten for Manitoba, seven for British Columbia, four for Prince Edward Island, four for Alberta, four for Saskatche- wan, and one for the Yukon territory. The number is now 221, Alberta having seven and Saskatchewan ten members Yespectively ; automatic change has distressed very greatly the Maritime Provinces and especially Prince Edward Island, which sees itself at no distant date sure to be left with no representation at all, and a case has been brought to decide the claim of the province that the minimum Number given at the time of joining the Union must be held to continue good for all time : the rejection of this con- tention 1 has resulted in petitions from the province for the Passing of an amendment to the British North America Act to secure this result, but so far without any success.? It will be seen that there is no really satisfactory federal character about this House at all, and this is one of the Points which show how really different the Canadian Con- stitution is from that of the United States: there is merely 2 decided attempt to secure Quebec a definite place, and Dothing more : the threatened extinction of the representa- tion of the province of Prince Edward Island, and the very Small representation of the provinces generally, shows clearly that the model of the Parliament is. the unitary Parliament of the United Kingdom. It may be added ' Cf. Canadian Annual Review, 1908, pp. 593, 594. See Attorney-General for Prince Edward Island v. Attorney-General for Dominion of Canada, 119051 A. 0. 37; 33 8. C. R. 564. * Ibid, 1907. n. 426: 1908, pp. 32 seq.

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