Editing Province of Canada (section)

===Executive Council===
{{main|Executive Council of the Province of Canada}}
Thomson reformed the Executive Councils of Upper and Lower Canada by introducing a "President of the Committees of Council" to act as a chief executive officer for the council and chair of the various committees. The first was [[Robert Baldwin Sullivan]]. Thomson also systematically organised the civil service into departments, the heads of which sat on the Executive Council. A further innovation was to demand that every Head of department seek election in the Legislative Assembly.