234 THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [PART II 
before confederation certain acts of administration were 
required by law to be done under the sanction of an Order in 
Council while others did not require that formality. In both 
cases, however, since Responsible Government has been 
conceded, such acts have always been performed under 
the advice of a Responsible Ministry or Minister. Again, the 
59th clause provides that the Lieutenant-Governor is not 
to be removed except for cause assigned. Someone must 
be responsible to Parliament for the reasonableness of such 
cause, and must defend it there, and be liable to censure 
should the cause be deemed insufficient. 
Now the Governor-General cannot be held constitutionally 
responsible or open to censure in any way by Parliament. 
As Her Majesty’s representative he holds the same constitu- 
tional position in that respect as the Queen does in England. 
It seems to follow, therefore, that upon the Ministry of the 
day must rest the responsibility of advising the removal, of 
assigning the cause, and of justifying its sufficiency. 
Two special grounds have been urged why Mr. Letellier 
should not be removed ; first, that the motion of censure 
made in the late Parliament having been lost, the case should 
not be re-opened without new cause ; second, that Mr. Joly 
assumed the whole responsibility of the Lieutenant-Gover- 
nor’s act, and after an appeal to the people his Ministry still 
exists. As to the first ground it may be answered that, as 
already stated, the arguments used in opposition to the 
motion did not attempt to justify his conduct, but were 
founded on the inexpediency of raising the question at that 
time when Mr. Joly had gone or was about to go to the 
country, that the question had not been before the people at 
the time the then House of Commons was elected, and that 
it had been one of the subjects submitted to the people at 
the last election for the Dominion. The present House of 
Commons coming fresh from the people and supposed to 
express their opinion has by an overwhelming vote reversed 
the decision of the expiring Parliament, and pronounced 
a deliberate censure on Mr. Letellier’s conduct.” As to the 
second ground, the answer is that the Lieutenant-Governor 
of a Province holds the same relation to the Dominion 
Government and Legislature as the Governor-General does 
to Her Majesty and the Imperial Parliament. Here we have 
nothing to do with the appointment or removal of the 
Queen’s representative. We loyally accept the Governor- 
General selected by the Queen, and have no right to express 
an opinion as to his continuation in office or recall. All that