CANADIAN POLITICS
PAST SESSION'S WORK SOCIAL LEGISLATION VANCOUVER, April 19 During the session of the Canadian Parliament, which has just closed after three months' work, it has been wrestling with new Constitutional doctrine. The session was devoted largely to social legislation, including unemployment insurance and the provision of an eight-hour day and a six-dav week. Previously these questions had been considered to be within the exclusive jurisdiction of the provinces, and the Opposition insists that they still rest there. The Bennett Government, however, went on enunciating the doctrine that, by virtue of the Versailles Treaty and the League Covenant, questions involving labour became matters affected by the treaty and so constitutionally came under the Federal Government.
All measures passed both Houses easily.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22090, 22 April 1935, Page 9
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