The Canadian Constitution: The players and the issues in the process that has led from patriation to Meech Lake to an uncertain future

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Contents
Preface
Meech Lake Chronology
	1980
	1981
	1982
	1983
	1984
	1985
	1986
	1987
	1988
	1989
	1990
	1991
Introduction
1 Politics and the Constitution: An Overview
	Rules for Constitution Change: The Price of Legal Independence
	Table 1 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PROPOSALS, 1927-81
	The Founding Peoples and a Charter of Rights
	Regionalism and the Rise of the West
2 Option 1: Negotiation with the Provinces
	Table 2 CONSTITUTIONAL DISCUSSIONS BY AGENDA ITEM, SEPTEMBER 11, 1980
3 Option 2: Unilateral Action
4 The Supreme Court Decision
	Issues and Legal Strategies
	Arguments and Judgement: Question One
	Arguments and Judgement: Question 2
	Arguments and Judgement: Question Three
5 The Strategy of Agreement
	The Return of Public Participation: Women's and Native Rights
	Patriation without Quebec
6 The Road to Meech Lake
	The Unequal Power of Dissent: Aboriginals and Quebec
	The Reconciliation with Quebec
7 Ratification Politics and the Collapse of Meech Lake
	Table 3 MEECH LAKE REACTIONS
	Public Participation and the Struggle for Ratification
	The Final Undoing of The Meech Lake Accord
	The Politics of Blaming
	Aboriginal Resistance in the Post-Meech Climate
8 Post-Meech Canada
	Canada, Quebec and the National Question
	The Fate of Regionalism's Agenda
	The Charter and Canadian Nationhood
	The Politics of Judicial Review
	Canada After Meech
Appendix 1 CANADA ACT, 1982 (U.K.)
	Constitution Act, 1982
	Canadian Charter Of Rights And Freedoms
	Guarantee Of Rights And Freedoms
	Fundamental Freedoms
	PART II RIGHTS OF THE ABORIGINAL PEOPLES OF CANADA
	PART III EQUALIZATION AND REGIONAL DISPARITIES
	PART IV CONSTITUTIONAL CONFERENCE
	PART V PROCEDURE FOR AMENDING CONSTITUTION OF CANADA
	PART VI AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION ACT, 1867
	"THE SIXTH SCHEDULE
	PART VII GENERAL
Appendix 2 1983 Constitutional Accordon Aboriginal Rights
	AGENDA
	SCHEDULE
	PROCLAMATION AMENDING THE CONSTITUTION OF CANADA
	CONSTITUTIONAL CONFERENCES
Appendix 3 Meech Lake Communique of April 30, 1987
	Quebec's Distinct Society
	Immigration
	Supreme Court of Canada
	Spending Power
	Amending Formula
	Second Round
Appendix 4 1987 Constitutional Accord
	MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORlZE AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF CANADA
	SCHEDULE CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT, 1987
	CONSTITUTION ACT, 1867
		"Agreements on Immigration and Aliens"
		General
		"Courts Established by the Parliament of Canada"
		"Supreme Court of Canada"
		"XII - Conferences on The Economy and Other Matters
		XIII - References
	CONSTITUTION ACT, 1982
		"PART VI Constitutional Conferences
		General
		CITATION
Appendix 5 FIRST MINISTERS' MEETING ON THE CONSTITUTION
	FINAL COMMUNIQUE June 9, 1990
	1990 CONSTITUTIONAL AGREEMENT
		1. THE MEECH LAKE ACCORD
		2. SENATE REFORM
		3. FURTHER CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
			(1) Charter - Sex Equality Rights
			(2) Role of the Territories
			(3) Language issues
			(4) Aboriginal Constitutional Issues
		4. AGENDA FOR FUTURE CONSTITUTIONAL DISCUSSIONS
			(1) Creation of New Provinces in the Territories
			(2) Constitutional Recognitions
			(3) Constitutional Reviews
		5. SECTION 2: CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT, 1987
		6. NEW BRUNSWICK AMENDMENT
	SCHEDULE CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT
		PART 1 Constitution Act, 1867
			CONSTITUTION ACT, 1982
			CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT, 1987
		PART II Constitution Act, 1867
			Citation
	MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORlZE AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF CANADA
	SCHEDULE CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT Constitution Act, 1867
Notes on Sources
	Chapter 1
	Chapter 2
	Chapter 3
	Chapter 4
	Chapter 5
	Chapter 6
	Chapter 7
	Chapter 8
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