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Date: 1866-11-16
By: True Witness
Citation: “No title”, True Witness (16 November, 1866)
Other formats: TBA

NEWS OF THE WEEK

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The Canadian papers are warmly discussing the solemn promises made by M. Cartier to the effect that in the event of Confederation, the Catholic minority of U. Canada should, in the matter of Education, be placed on a footing of perfect equality with the Protestant minority of L. Canada to whom also the most ample guarantees were assured. Wherein these guarantees are to be found? by whom they are to be given? and whether amendments for the purpose of assuring them are to be made in the scheme of Union agreed to by the Provincial Legislature? are questions to which no one pretends to be able to give an answer. The Minerve, the Ministerial organ, is oracular, but unintelligible, and we must be content to wait for more light until after the return of the delegation from Ireland. We are not sanguine, but we will hope for the best, for we cannot believe that M. Cartier would publicly pledge himself on the U. Canada School Question unless he were confident of his ability to redeem his pledges.