The Public Purse : : A Study in Canadian Democracy /

The Public Purse : : A Study in Canadian Democracy / / Norman Ward.

This study of parliamentary control of finance in Canada will special emphasis on the period after 1867 is an outgrowth of an interest in the House of Commons on the part of its author which earlier produced The Canadian House of Commons: Representation. The author’s main purpose has been to examine...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Ward, Norman,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©1951
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • PREFACE
  • CONTENTS
  • A NOTE ON THE DOCUMENTATION
  • THE PUBLIC PURSE
  • 1. INTRODUCTION
  • 2. THE POWER OF THE PURSE BEFORE CONFEDERATION
  • 3. CONFEDERATION AND RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT
  • 4. THE SELECT STANDING COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, 1867-78
  • 5. THE PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE AND THE AUDITOR GENERAL, 1879-90
  • 6. THE SCANDAL SESSIONS, 1891-6
  • 7. THE AUDITOR GENERAL VERSUS THE LIBERAL ADMINISTRATION, 1896-1905
  • 8. A NEW AUDITOR GENERAL AND AN OLD COMMITTEE, 1905-11
  • 9. THE CONSERVATIVES AND THE WAR, 1911-21
  • 10. THE NADIR OF THE PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE, 1921-39
  • 11. THE SECOND WORLD WAR, 1939-45
  • 12. THE POST-WAR PERIOD, 1946-60
  • 13. THE GRANTING OF SUPPLY BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR
  • 14. THE GRANTING OF SUPPLY SINCE THE FIRST WORLD WAR
  • 15. THE RECORD AND THE FUTURE
  • APPENDIX: THE FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION ACT, 1951, AND AMENDMENTS
  • INDEX

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