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munity differing, as we do, in creed, language and nationality.
Let me, then, examine what the Protestant guarantees consist of, in order that the question of their sufficiency at present may be distinctly understood.
They are three in number: Education, Representation, and, most important to us of all, the Veto power reserved in the hands of the Federal Government at Ottawa.
Education.
By the 93rd Clause of the British North American Act, it is provided:—
93. In and for each Province the Legislature may exclusively make Laws in relation to Education, subject and according to the following Provisions:—
1. Nothing in any such law shall prejudicially affect any Right or Privilege with respect to the Denominational Schools which any Class of Persons have by Law in the Province at the Union:
2. All the Powers, Privileges, and Duties at the Union by Law conferred and imposed in Upper Canada on the Separate Schools and School Trustees of the Queen's Roman Catholic Subjects shall be and the same are hereby extended to the Dissentient Schools of the Queen's Protestant and Roman Catholic Subjects in Quebec:
3. Where in any Province a System of Separate or Dissentient Schools exists by Law at the Union or is thereafter established by the Legislature of the Province, an Appeal shall lie to the Governor General in Council from any Act or Decision of any Provincial Authority affecting any Right or Privilege of the Protestant or Roman Catholic Minority of the Queen's Subjects in relation to Education:
4. In case any such Provincial Law as from Time to Time seems to the Governor General in Council requisite for the due Execution of the Provisions of this Section is not made, or in
