The centralization of fiscal power in the hands of the federal government was accompanied by its close control over banking and finance, again with a view to stabilizing the overseas market for its debentures. The federal power of disallowance was used against provincial statutes that threatened to invoke the ire of British financiers.
--R. T. Naylor, The Banks and Finance Capital, vol. 1 of The History of Canadian Business, 1867-1914 (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006), 254.
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