As lieutenant-governor of Alberta, Bowen refused to give royal assent to three government bills passed by the governing Social Credit Party — two that would have put the province's banks under the control of the provincial government, and one that would have forced newspapers to hand over the names and addresses of their sources to the government, and to print government rebuttals to stories to which the cabinet objected. The Supreme Court of Canada did find the bills to be unconstitutional, and
Premier Aberhart retaliated by shutting down Government House despite Bowen still residing in it.
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