Talk:President of the Executive Council

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I plan on reverting this page. Governors-general and their equivalent are not referred to as president of the executive council any more than Elizabeth II is ever called the president of the Privy Council. The British Lord President is actually a deputy to the sovereign for a specified agenda on particular occasions.

See Talk:President of the Executive Council. 202.0.43.181 04:50, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

Oops. Above sentence obviously does not belong, please ignore. 202.0.43.181 04:51, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

The term "Executive Council", "President of the Executive Council", "Vice-President of the Executive Council" etc. are not exclusive to Commonwealth realms---colonies and dependencies also use them, so I don;t think its appropriate to say G-G = Pres. ExCo.

Also, especially in Canada, the position of President of the ExCo is not the Lt. Governor. E.g.:

• Nova Scotia, Canada (http://www.gov.ns.ca/legi/legc/terminol.htm: Lt. Governor is not the Pres. of the ExCo
• Prince Edward Island, Canada http://www.gov.pe.ca/ec/index.php3: ditto.

And of course, there was the historical situation of Ireland where G-G != Exco President.

I see that most places merge the two offices (e.g. the Cayman Islands http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/intel/01019/#ci) as "Govenor and President".

But it remains the fact that the two offices, though usually falling upon the same person, and having related fields of responsibility, are not one and the same.

202.0.43.181 04:50, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

• We have two separate offices. President of the Executive Council is the title of the Prime Minister in several countries. As no-one can produce an actual example where a governor-general is referred to by this title, we need to revert the article which, as it stands, is hopelessly confusing. Alan 05:32, 8 August 2005 (UTC)