| | Canada - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Following the 1931 Statute of Westminster, which had granted the British dominions complete autonomy in external affairs, this was a period of constitutional development in Canada, which played a leading part in the transformation from British Empire to Commonwealth. |
 | | The issue of separatism came to the fore again in the mid-1970s, and the Québec prime minister René Lévesque stated, after the success of his Parti Québécois in the November 1976 election, that a referendum would be held to ascertain whether the people of Québec wished their province to become an independent nation. |
 | | The election of 1988 was fought on the issue of free trade with the USA, and the Conservatives won with a reduced majority. |
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