Preface
In 1977, the Privy Council Office made a submission to the Lambert
Commission on Financial Management and Accountability. One of the four
papers in that submission dealt with the principles and evolution of
responsible government in Canada. The document, entitled
"Responsibility in the Constitution", has been used as a basic
reference work within and around the Privy Council Office ever since.
This paper is being re-issued with the aim of making it more widely
available to those interested in the history and foundations of our
system of responsible government and of the principles and conventions
that underlie it. I hope this volume will be as useful to a new
generation of readers as it has been to us over the past sixteen years.
Clerk of the Privy Council and
Secretary to the Cabinet
June 1993
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