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made for the purpose of filling our reserved constituencies with French-Canadian Roman Catholics, whenever an opening could be found or made.
Already our hold on these constituencies is so weakened, that, with one or two exceptions, the candidate receiving the Roman Catholic vote will always secure his election. And when the day arrives that Mgr. Bourget's dogma prevails as to "who are those who are not to be voted for," it will be seen that our guarantee is gone. One session, with an obedient majority from the guaranteed constituencies, will be sufficient to re-cast the boundaries of each and all, and scatter to the winds this one of our impregnable securities; unless, as in the case of the Education law, the veto power be exercised.
Veto Power.
We have the guarantee that all local legislation is subject to revision and veto by the Governor-General; or rather, to speak more practically and intelligibly, by the Federal Government. The Clauses in the Confederation Act are as follows:—
56. Where the Governor General assents to a Bill in the Queen's Name, he shall by the first convenient Opportunity send an authentic Copy of the Act to One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and if the Queen in Council within Two Years after Receipt thereof by the Secretary of State thinks fit to disallow the Act, such Disallowance (with a Certificate of the Secretary of State of the Day on which the Act was received by him) being signified by the Governor General, by Speech or Message to each of the Houses of the Parliament or by Proclamation, shall annul the Act from and after the Day of such Signification.
90. The following Provisions of this Act respecting the Parliament of Canada, namely,—the Provisions relating to Appropriation and Tax Bills, the Recommendation of Money Votes, the Assent to Bills, the Disallowance of Acts, and the Signification of
