Viscount Haldane .-

Of the questions before the Board in this appeal some have already been disposed of by the judgments already delivered in the cases of John Deere Plow Co. v. Wharton [1915] A.C. 330 — (1914) L.J.P.C. 64, Bonanza Creek Gold Mining Co. v. The King [1916] A.C. 566 — (1916) 85 L.J. 115, and the Insurance Act reference Att.-Gen. for Canada v. Att-Gen. for Albert [1916] A.C. 588 — (1916) L.J. 124. In the first of these cases, in which the judgments in the Supreme Court of Canada in the present- reference were brought to their notice, their Lordships indicated that the task of answering the questions on the interpretation of the British North America Act, 1867, imposed on the learned judges in the Court below was one which it was, in their own opinion, impossible to satisfactorily accomplish. They gave reasons for thinking that the abstract and general character of the questions put rendered it unsafe in the interests of justice to future suitors to attempt to answer them completely.

Their Lordships are desirous of rendering all the assistance they can to the Governments of the Dominion and the provinces in the work, which is often difficult, of securing adequate assist