To promote the complete secularization of the State, etc.
"A Grammar of Freethought"
Chapman Cohen
It was, however, unable to dispose of two great questions which had long agitated the province-the abolition of the seigniorial tenure, which was antagonistic to settlement and colonization, and the secularization of the clergy reserves, granted to the Protestant clergy by the Constitutional Act of 1791. These questions will be reviewed at some length in later chapters, and all that it is necessary to say here is that, while the LaFontaine-Baldwin cabinet supported preliminary steps that were taken in the legislature for the purpose of bringing about a settlement of these vexatious subjects, it never showed any earnest desire to take them up as parts of its ministerial policy, and remove them from political controversy.
"Lord Elgin"
John George Bourinot
His support of the LaFontaine-Baldwin ministry gradually dropped from a moderate enthusiasm to a positive coolness, from its failure to carry out the principles urged by The Globe-especially the secularization of the clergy reserves.
"Lord Elgin"
John George Bourinot