The importance of this page shows the difference between what Britain's Colonial Department had drafted and what was eventually passed and what the Canadian delegation wanted.

On the right is.Sir John A. Macdonald's handwriting. showing his desire for the Provinces to unite into a Federal Union; drafted by John Macdonald before he receives his title.
  Sir John tried to make the draft fit the wishes of the Canadian delegation by stroking out and adding different words, but, alas, it was not to be; at least not until many decades later on December 11, 1931 and the document the Statute of Westminster.
    Instead, Britain's Colonial Department united Upper and Lower Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick under a Corporate Sole, the Governor General.

On the left is the preliminary draft by the Colonial Office in Great Britain. This means the domination of the Colony, or the uniting of the Colonies into One Union. This is the basis of the British North America Act, to have what was then all that comprised the country, to have this completely under control of Britain, thus quashing any ideas of self-government..
    That on the left is diametrically opposed to what's written on the right.

When Sir John's copy was printed and before the House of Lords, what did they think of it?