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On this point they succeeded, for the Privy Council held 
without hesitation that, so far from their former judgement 
regulating this point as was contended, the subsection gave 
quite a different right from that dealt with in the previous 
subsection, one which applied as soon as the legislation of 
1871 was passed, and that it depended on different principles. 
In the particular case they decided that the province had 
so acted as to allow an appeal to the Governor-General in 
Council against the decision of the Legislature in the Acts 
of 1890, and that the particular remedy to be applied must 
be determined by that authority, thus throwing upon the 
Federal Government the onus of acting so as to provide the 
desired result. The Dominion Government then proceeded 
to pass an Order in Council of March 21, 1895, calling 
attention to the points in which the legislature of the province 
was bound to legislate to restore to the Roman Catholics the 
rights of which they had been, it was declared, deprived 
unjustly! The Manitoba Government not merely refused 
to ask the legislature to enact the measures indicated, but 
intimated their determination to resist unitedly, by every 
constitutional means, any such attempt to interfere with 
their provincial authority. The Dominion Government then 
proceeded to introduce a Bill into the House of Commons, 
in 1896, to effect the necessary legislation, this being the 
course authorized by s. 22 (3) of the Provincial Constitution 
Act, corresponding with the similar provision in the British 
North America Act? regarding the original provinces ; but 
the fates were adverse ;: the Parliament, which had met on 
April 23, 1891, was on the point of expiring from efflux 
of time, and the Opposition resisted in a most determined 
manner, with the result that the Bill could not be passed, 
and the Government at the polls were defeated, and had to 
resign office under circumstances more fullyexplained above. 
Sir Wilfrid Laurier then opened negotiations with the 
Government of the province for a friendly settlement of the 
* Canada Sess. Pap. 1896, No. 39; 1897, No. 35; Manitoba Sess. Payp., 
1909 ; Canadian Annual Review, 1907, pp. 575 seq. There is an excellent 
view of the facts in Willison, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, ii. 201-77. * 8.98.