ABSTRACT
Mere objection to the principles of an Act might be sufficient reason for its disallowance in the less advanced colonies, though Grey claimed that even here his policy was as far as possible to let the colonies decide for themselves. In the colonies with responsible government such an objection might be urged, so as to give the colonial authorities opportunity for further reflexion, but it ought not to be pressed to the point of disallowance. He instanced, in a Minute for the Cabinet, certain Canadian Bank Charter Acts:
Only in the rare cases where Imperial interests or the honour of the Crown were affected should the Imperial Government use its supremacy to interfere with a colony possessing responsible government. Imperial interests, as we have already seen, Grey tended to limit more narrowly than his predecessors-though he insisted as firmly as any of them that no departures from the settled Imperial tariff policy could be allowed. He also tended to narrow down, more closely than some of his critics-witness the "Fairbanks case'
