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P. IV] THE GOVERNOR AS HEAD 239 
the Lieutenant-Governors now holding office prove that 
correctness of this view has been hitherto recognized in 
ctice ; and I cannot doubt that your advisers, from the 
, lions they have expressed, would be equally ready with 
- late Government to appreciate the objections to any 
on which might tend to weaken its influence in the future. 
have directed your attention particularly to this point, 
ause it appears to me to be important that, in.considering 
we which may be referred to hereafter as a precedent, 
true constitutional position of a Lieutenant-Governor 
ald be defined. The whole subject may, I am satisfied, 
* be once more reviewed with advantage, and I cannot 
think that the interval which has elapsed (and which has 
1 various causes been unavoidable) may have been useful 
ffording means for a thorough comprehension of a very 
plicated question, and in allowing time for the strong 
ngs, on both sides, which I regret to observe have been 
n too bitterly expressed, to subside. 
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nother striking instance of the straining of the power of 
olution and dismissal entrusted to the Governor was 
n by the action of the Lieutenant-Governor of British 
i oi T. R. McInnes—in the years 1898-1900.1 
11898 Mr. McInnes decided to dismiss the Ministry of 
iTurner, which he considered to have no longer the con- 
ice of the people of the province. The Ministry which 
the place of Mr. Turner’s Government was also very 
x; it failed to meet Parliament in 1900 until January 4 ; 
18 defeated immediately after the meeting of Parliament, 
: poly retained office throughout January and February by 
kjority of either one vote or of the casting vote of the 
7 ker. Moreover, the Ministry requested the Lieutenant- 
:rnor to approve warrants for certain expenditures which 
not authorized by the Legislature, and when the 
tenant-Governor asked that he should receive a legal 
ion from the Attorney-General as to the constitutionality 
ich warrants, no answer was supplied. Further, the 
rnment advised him to take action with a view to 
ng an important change in the Minerals Act empowering 
xovernor to cancel certain certificates of improvement 
Canada Sess. Pap., 1900, No. 174. 
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