John George Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham
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In The Copybook
Posts in The Copybook credited to ‘John George Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham’
In The Copybook
Lord Durham warned Westminster that colonial Canada must be run by elected MPs, not career bureaucrats.
In 1839, Lord Durham, Governor General of Canada, reported to Westminster on mounting civil unrest in Canada. He was expected to blame Anglo-French antagonism, but chose to highlight a system in which elected Parliaments were mere window-dressing, while real power lay with bureaucrats appointed by the Crown.