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Mémoires sur la politique manitobaine, [?]
- Fonds / Collection
- Louis Riel
- Description Level
- Document
- Document Type
- documents textuels
- Date
- [?? ?? 1874]
- Date
- [?? ?? 1874]
- Document Type
- documents textuels
- Fonds / Collection
- Louis Riel
- Description Level
- Document
- Fonds No.
- 0003
- Reference No.
- 0003/1093/541
- Creator
- Riel, Louis
- Physical Description
- 5 f. de documents textuels
- Language(s)
- Français
- Notes
- Copie numérisée sur le CD088.
- Scope and Content (English)
- ... Representatives, being established in authority, with all the constitutional guarantees of true responsibility toward their constituencies, these however constrained by the absence of the amnesty and by being in fact treated as people outside the law would be able to force their representatives to demand the amnesty, or they would not re-elect them; the electors would react on the representatives, the representatives on the government, and it on the Crown; to prevent a forcing of the amnesty they resolved on breaking the constitutional bond which links the ministers with the constituents as well as with the members; they did not wish the re-election of the ministers; the law in England determined on Feb. 18, 1706 that the seat of a representative who accepts an office under the crown becomes vacant; representatives who accept a ministerial post who are not re-elected by their constituents are not representatives of the people; constitutional government requires members of the Cabinet to be representatives of the people; our first ministry which was not responsible, after Jan. 1, 1871, was composed of 4 members of the Legislative Assembly, Girard, Clarke, Boyd, and Howard; at the end of 1871 Boyd resigned, at the beginning of 1872 Girard; they were replaced by two others who were not re-elected; in our legislative assembly of 24 members only 18 were left; the 6 others having, following the constitution, lost their seats, in consenting to become ministers and a re-election not being held to re-install them as representatives of the people; nevertheless, they voted and took part in the preparation of all our laws; as ministers they had the initiative; at the first provincial elections the people being in fact outside the law had not been free to vote as they wished and the representation was composed more to the liking of Ottawa than the people; this representation was decimated by removing four members for a ministry responsible to the lieutenant-governor who named them; after having endured this for a year, Le Metis having demanded the re-election of the Ministers, the lieutenant-governor with his deserters of the cause of the people demanded of the House the passage of a law which dispensed with a re-election during the first parliament of which the duration is for 4 years; the House, a rope around its necks, sanctioned this law; the Canadian government did not obstruct it, then took place the elevation to the Ministry of two representatives who replaced Boyd and Girard; in July 1874 another ministry was formed because the House found itself so abused by the first government that it had to overthrow it for its own protection and out of respect for itself; the Canadian Lieutenant-Governor, Morris, refused to accept the resignation of the ministry until he was assured of another ministry which would conform to the politics of Ottawa against the former colonists; Girard attempted to form a new ministry and called to this new cabinet...
- Name Access
- Riel, Louis
- Storage Location
- PAM MG 3 D 1, 541
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