November 18, 1867

JUSTICE PAY DISPUTE

Judges in Nova Scotia have refused their pay on the grounds that as of July 1, they are entitled to the same rate of pay as the Canadian judges, which is nearly twice their former salary of £700 to £800 per year. The New Brunswick judges are expected to soon join the protest.

TORONTO VOTERS STRICKEN FROM ROLLS

Some 1,937 voters in Toronto have been disenfranchised as a result of increasing the property qualification to $600.

St. John’s Ward sees the greatest decrease, with some 547 voters removed from the rolls, a reduction of nearly one-third. In that ward, whole streets have been removed from the rolls including Dummer and Renfrew among others. St. Patrick’s and St. David’s wards also see the voter rolls reduced by one-third.

The number of eligible voters is not final however, since in order to keep the franchise, one’s taxes must be paid in full by December 15.

LOCAL MINISTERS IN THE COMMONS

The Globe correspondent in Ottawa says that Hon. Luther Holton (Liberal, Châteauguay) intends to raise a question in the Commons that the eleven provincial cabinet ministers currently members of that chamber (three from Ontario; eight from Québec) are violating the Parliamentary Act by doing so. The question may be raised as early as today.

NOVA SCOTIA THANKSGIVING

The provincial government in Nova Scotia has fixed November 25 as a day of Thanksgiving.

VIEW OF THE QUEBEC GAZETTE

The Québec Gazette offers the following assessment of the proceedings of the House of Commons to date:

The House of Commons of the new Dominion has kept up the time-honoured custom — honoured in the late United Provinces of Canada, at least — of making a clean breast on the debate on the speech from the Throne. Not that the members have each man confessed his owns sins of the sins of his party, but the sins of his neighbour and of the party to which he is personally opposed.