cuAP. 1] CONTROL OVER INTERNAL AFFAIRS 1053 
Government would have had either no real control over land, 
or it would have had to interfere with the legislation and 
administration of the Colony to an extent which it would 
be very difficult to justify. It is true that Canada manages 
to control lands despite the existence of the provinces, but 
the legislation of the provinces occupies a very much smaller 
sphere than that of a Colony, and again Canada, as being a 
superior government of the country, can control the pro- 
vinces in a way which would never have been possible to 
an Imperial power which had no direct share in the ordinary 
government of the country. Moreover, the restoration of 
provincial control is a ‘plank’ in the platform of the 
Conservative party in Canada, and some measure of con- 
cession to the North-West was foreshadowed in the election 
policy pronouncements in 1911 of the government. 
The complete abnegation of Imperial control over internal 
matters may perhaps be best illustrated by the legislation 
regarding Colonial stocks and investments of trust funds. 
Since the Act of 1900 the Imperial Government allows Colonial 
stocks to be ranked as trust-fund investments conditionally 
on certain arrangements being made, which include a promise 
by the Government to keep funds in London available for 
payment in case any judgement is given in respect of the 
stocks by the Courts, and a statement by the Government 
that any legislation conflicting with the obligations imposed 
would properly be disallowed. 
- Sce Parl. Pap., H. L. 189, 1877; C. 6278; H. L. 169, 1892; H. C. 
276, 1893; H. C. 300, 1900. It should be noted that, as the Imperial 
Government has no direct control over provincial Acts, it has never been 
found possible to admit the securities of the Canadian provinces to the 
henefits of the enactment. See Canada Sess. Pap., 1900, No. 139.