 Moore , along with fellow UFA backbencher John Russell Love , caused the government further trouble with a resolution aiming to limit the circumstances under which the government would have to resign . By convention of the Westminster system , a government was required to resign on the defeat of any piece of its legislation that was critical to its program . Moore and Love objected to the manner in which this provision could be expected to pressure UFA MLAs to back government legislation that they might otherwise be inclined to oppose , and introduced a resolution in the Legislature that called for a policy by which the government would resign only upon passage of an explicit motion of no confidence . The resolution caught the attention of politicians across Canada , including future Prime Minister R. B. Bennett , who warned that it was unconstitutional . Brownlee moved an amendment that reduced the resolution to a vague statement of principle , which passed and was not heard of again . 
