The Relation Between the Legislative and Executive Branches of the Canadian Government (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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It is to be noted that the field of Canadian politics to which the responsible parliamentary systm applied, did not as yet extend beyond the strict confines of domestic affairs. Foreign relations and the regulation of external trade were still dealt with by the home government, subject, of course, to such influences as peti tions and addresses from colonial interests might exercise. At the very time, however, when Lord Elgin was placing the cope sto'ne on_ the structure whose foundations Lord Sydenham had laid, questions of fiscal tariffs, trade relations with Britain and the United States, and the reconstruction of the navigation acts, were proformdly agitating the Canadian people and were the subjects of endless petitions to the crown and parliament of Britain, on the part of both houses of the legislature, the axson tive government and the leading commercial interests. In con sequence, from this time forward, the definition of domestic afiairshasbeensteadilywidening,noristheendevenyetin sight.

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