 | Isaac Buchanan - 1864 - 618 pages
...imposition of taxation, it is so plainly necessary that the administration and the people should be hi accord, that the former cannot admit responsibility...therefore the duty of the present Government distinctly J» affirm the right of the Canadian Legislature to adjust the taxation of the people in the way they... | |
 | Hugh Edward Egerton - 1897 - 530 pages
...country, as put forward by Lord Grey, were to be persisted in. 1 " Self-government," wrote Mr Gait, " would be utterly annihilated if the views of the Imperial...to be preferred to those of the people of Canada." 1 Parl. Pap., 1858. CHAPTER III Cape THE difficulty of arranging the diverse and varied doings of i... | |
 | John Davidson - 1900 - 180 pages
...Canadian minister of finance; and the broad principle he then enunciated has never since been questioned : Self-government would be utterly annihilated if the...Government were to be preferred to those of the people of • 'Tu.U, of. fit., page 178. Canada. It is, therefore, the duty of the present government [of Canada]... | |
 | Percy Alport Molteno - 1900 - 560 pages
...particular attention to this resolution, which avers that self-government would be utterly impracticable if the views of the Imperial Government were to be preferred to those of the people of Canada.1 Sir Charles Adderley, who had been Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies under Lord Carnarvon... | |
 | Hugh Edward Egerton - 1913 - 604 pages
...raise revenue by fiscal regulations. The claim put forward in the fifties has been already quoted. " Self-government would be utterly annihilated if the...to be preferred to those of the people of Canada." In this spirit of detachment from all selfish claims, the Mother country encouraged and assisted the... | |
 | Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.) - 1914 - 692 pages
...and a union upon equitable terms with the great North American confederacy of sovereign states. (6) Self-government would be utterly annihilated if the...to be preferred to those of the people of Canada. (c) It is admitted that the provinces are not really represented to any Federal intent in the Legislative... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1916 - 1150 pages
...imposed her first protective tariff the protest of the Colonial Office was met by a curt answer: " Self-government would be utterly annihilated if the...to be preferred to those of the people of Canada." Thus at a blow ended the old theory of Empire. With the development of colonial institutions a stalwart... | |
 | Charles Herbert Currey - 1916 - 278 pages
...Canada to decide for themselves both as to the mode and extent to which taxation shall be imposed. . . . Self-government would be utterly annihilated if the...to be preferred to those of the people of Canada.' 2 Although very dubious as to the wisdom of the proposed step, and very regretful that the fiscal policy... | |
 | Lionel George Curtis - 1916 - 282 pages
...Administration and the people should be ' in accord, that the former cannot admit responsi' bility or require approval beyond that of the local ' Legislature....utterly ' annihilated if the views of the Imperial Govern' ment were to ^.be preferred to those of the people ' of Canada. It is therefore the duty of... | |
 | Hugh Edward Egerton - 1920 - 306 pages
...the right to raise revenue by fiscal regulations. ' Self-government,' it was asserted in the fifties, 'would be utterly annihilated, if the views of the...Government were to be preferred to those of the people of Canada.1 It is natural for communities still in their youth to depend largely upon import duties for... | |
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Self-government would be utterly annihilated if the views of the Imperial Government were to be preferred to those of the people of Canada. 
