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 legislative
 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.