The Dominion of Canada: Its Growth and Achievement; Its Relation to the British Empire; Its Form of Government; Its Natural and Developed Resources; Its Home and Foreign Trade; Its National Finances; Its Banking and Currency System; and Its Railroads and Its ShippingBankers Trust Company, 1920 - 174 pages |
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Page 144 - It shall not be lawful for the House of Commons to adopt or pass any vote, resolution, address, or bill for the appropriation of any part of the public revenue, or of any tax or impost, to any purpose that has not been first recommended to that House by message of the Governor General in the session in which such vote, resolution, address, or bill is proposed.
Page 169 - ... (e) any other matter, whether or not in the opinion of the Court ejusdem generis with the foregoing enumerations, with reference to which the Governor in Council sees fit to submit any such question; may be referred by the Governor in Council to the Supreme Court for hearing and consideration; and any question touching any of the matters aforesaid, so referred by the Governor in Council, shall be conclusively deemed to be an important question.
Page 133 - ... reporting direct to the Canadian Government. In the absence of the Ambassador the Canadian minister will take charge of the whole Embassy and of the representation of Imperial as well as Canadian Interests. He will be accredited by His Majesty to the President with the necessary powers for the purpose. This new arrangement will not denote any departure either on the part of the British Government or of the Canadian Government from the principle of the diplomatic unity of the British Empire.
Page 163 - hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens the legislative part of the State to the executive part".
Page 135 - Kingdom, the Dominion of Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, the Irish Free State and Newfoundland...
Page 133 - Accordingly it has been agreed that His Majesty, on the advice of his Canadian Ministers, shall appoint a Minister Plenipotentiary, who will have charge of Canadian affairs, and will at all times be the ordinary channel of communication with the United States Government in matters of purely Canadian concern, acting upon instructions from and reporting direct to the Canadian Government. In the absence of the Ambassador the Canadian Minister will take charge of the whole Embassy and of the representation...
Page 138 - And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen : and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.
Page 145 - ... such further day as the House shall think fit to appoint, and then it shall be referred to a committee of the whole House before any resolution or vote of the House do pass therein.
Page 142 - Constitution, there are now 81 senators — namely, 24 from the Province of Ontario, 24 from Quebec, 10 from Nova Scotia, 10 from New Brunswick, 4 from Manitoba, 3 from British Columbia, 4 from Prince Edward Island, and 2 from the Territories.
Page 147 - ... were generally opposed to the principle, every description of citizens in the south universally so. The agricultural, manufacturing, and mechanical interests of the east, north, and west, supported the principle of protection, but were opposed to many of the leading features of the bill. Report of the committee of ways and means. The committee of ways and means, of which Mr. M'Duffie, of South Carolina, was chairman, in their report on the finances, after...