INTRODUCTION. 
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at least one of the Provinces and the Dominion. When the 
framers of the Constitution provided that all powers not 
specifically delegated to the Provinces should remain with 
the Dominion, it was thought that all danger of conflict 
between the central authority and the province had been 
removed. The exercise of the Governor-General’s right of 
veto in the case of the Manitoba Railway Acts shewed that 
this was not the case, and that where the veto is exercised, 
not on the ground that the province has exceeded its legisla- 
tive powers, but on grounds of “general policy,” a conflict 
may arise. It should be added that the Dominion is fully 
alive to the necessity of rarely interfering with provincial 
legislation, except where clearly illegal’. 
1 See post, chap. xv.