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Date: 1865-07-13
By: Ottawa Union
Citation: “The coming Session”, The Ottawa Union (13 July, 1865)
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The coming Session
The Montreal Gazette foreshadows a desire on the part of some members of the Cabinet, to stave off a session of Parliament for the present. The important point was to have been settled yesterday at a Cabinet meeting, and consequently no reliable intelligence could have been received until the conclusion of that meeting. If the Gazette is well informed, there are doubts whether necessity exists for a summer session. If confederation is to have priority, the Gazette does not see that there is any call for immediate action. The supplies have been voted, says the Gazette, until October, and there is nothing pressing until something further is learned from the Maratime Provinces. What can be done with Confederation, suggests our contemporary.
Evidently the Government anticipates difficulty in establishing to the satisfaction of the country the grand success of the great and costly embassy to Downing street. To use an Americanism, the grand points in the Colonial Secretary’s despatch can easily be “whittled down to the little end of nothing.” Secure confederation first and then we shall guarantee a loan if you give us good security to enable you to fortify your country, is in effect, the answer of the Colonial Secretary. If then, all is to be postponed until confederation is secured, what can be done now? The maratime Provinces exhibit no sign of accepting our fraternal overtures.
The Coalition is left without a scintilla of reason for further demoralization of the country. It has notoriously failed in every feature of its programme. It is, however, hoping against hope to suppose that the happy family can afford to break up so soon. Ministers will meet Parliament, and some grand scheme of hoodwinking the people’s representatives will be planned by the combined cunning of the Coalition.