the Government of Canada; the federal government whose seat is in Ottawa.
- 1870  (1883)  . . . it is an undoubted fact that warning had been given to the Dominion Government of the state of feeling amongst the half-breeds, and the phrase, "they are only eaters of pemmican," so cutting to the Metis, was then first originated by a distinguished Canadian politician.
- 1962  That cenotaph belongs to the dominion government and what is done with it is their responsibility.