CANADIAN CONSTITUTION.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16688, 10 March 1920, Page 3

CANADIAN CONSTITUTION.

A PROPOSED AMENDMENT,

By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright,

LONDON, March 5

Mr. Benidale Leith, in a letter to The Times, says Canada’s proposal to amend her constitution to secure authority to legislate extra-territorially consists, firstly of the formalisation of a new Dominion status. There should be siimlar enactments by Britain and Canada in regard to Canada’s law, which under existing Imperial practice would be treated as void so far as it was repugnant to British law, but the doctrine of repugnancy, like the doctrine of Britain’s power to disallow Canada’s laws, must he repealed, since both contradict the Dominion’s claims to autonomy. Mr. Leith suggests each Dominion should legislate for its own British subjects when beyond its borders. —Times Service.