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  • That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall be satisfactory to the advisory board.

  • That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest.

  • I do not see any reason why they should not be given the means to give their teachers just as high an education as is secured by attendance at the Protestant schools.

  • It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba down to 1890, were taken away by legislation of 1890.

    Taken   Rights   Catholic  
  • It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare a Bill better than the Remedial Bill.

    Power   Bills   Waste  
  • The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one.

  • A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away.

    Country   Taken   Rights  
  • The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

  • My great desire has been to remove from the political arena a question of this kind that is calculated to prevent us getting a verdict upon the important political issues that separate the two parties in this country.

    Country   Party   Issues  
  • The human mind naturally adapts itself to the position it occupies.

    Mind   Position   Humans  
    Sir Charles Tupper (1914). “Recollections of Sixty Years in Canada”, London : Cassell
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Charles Tupper

  • Born: July 2, 1821
  • Died: October 30, 1915
  • Occupation: Former Prime Minister of Canada