Important Debate on the Adoption of the Report of the Select Committee on the Differences Between His Excellency and the Late Executive Council: In ... Assembly, April 18th, 1836 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from Important Debate on the Adoption of the Report of the Select Committee on the Differences Between His Excellency and the Late Executive Council: In the House of Assembly, April 18th, 1836

Yes, the first Governor had an Executive Council. The 31st Geo, III., chap. 31, showed that there was to be one. And, if such a Council does exist, the Royal Instructions state that they are to be advised on all affairs of the Province. -it was the most odious doctrine that ever was promulgated, to tell the Council at this late day that they are to be limited in their advice to only those subjects on which the Governor may feel it necessary to ask it, and that they are alone responsible to him for that advice. In the year 1799, Governor Preston of Lower Canada took upon himself the same authority, but the Tory Council told him they. Would not submit to it. He continued to act without their advice, and he had to walk about his business. Sir Peregrine Maitland dld the same, and led some persons into crime. The Executive Council told him it was their province to advise him, and that, ii' he continued to act without advice, they would accuse him, and he must be recalled. Indeed, it was evident that the Governor could no more act by himself than the Assembly could. The privileges of both were defined by law. He' would close by observing that Sir Francis Head, in replying to the Address of the City Council, had entirely mistaken the subject of it. He had represented them as dictating whom he ought to appoint as Executive Councillors. But they did no such thing: They said what every constituted body has a right to jsay - that the present Council had not the confidence of,the country. But they nominated no persons in their stead, but. Left the whole Province to His Excellency, from which to make his selection.

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