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Privy Council, Cabinet, and Ministry in Britain and Canada: A Comment on the Expansion of the Cabinet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

Trevor Lloyd*
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University of Toronto
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Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association 1966

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1 Privy Council, Cabinet, and Ministry in Britain and Canada,” this Journal (05, 1965), 193–205, esp. 202 and 205.Google Scholar

2 Ibid., 200–1.

3 Ibid., 198.

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13 Globe and Mail, Oct. 7, 1965. In “Highlights” the newspaper refers to the “appointment of federal minister of higher education”, and in “A University Prospectus” it says the Report “recommended that the federal Government create a Ministry of Education.”