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	Charlottetown Accord - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Charlottetown Accord was a package of constitutional amendments, proposed by the Canadian federal and provincial governments in 1992.
		Former Prime Minister Joe Clark was appointed Minister of Constitutional Affairs, and was responsible for pulling all of this together to forge a new constitutional agreement.
		On August 28, 1992, after intensive negotiations in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, the federal, provincial and territorial governments, and representatives from the Assembly of First Nations, the Native Council of Canada, the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada and the Métis National Council, came to the agreement known as the "Charlottetown Accord".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charlottetown_Accord (2137 words)

	The Charlottetown Accord
		One of the complaints about the Meech Lake Accord was that the PM and provincial premiers tried to create by themselves a deal that was supposed to represent all Canadians without involving the citizens.
		An aboriginal person could supported the accords position on self-government, but would vote No because there was not enough in the accord to protect their rights.
		Constitutional reform now seemed a distant goal, with the failure of the both the Meech Lake and Charlottetown accords.
	members.tripod.com /~pc9899/cc/charlottetown.html (391 words)

	POLS111: Week 11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This led initially to the patriation and amendment of the constitution to include the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, and then to two subsequent constitutional accords (Meech Lake and Charlottetown), both of which were abandoned after they failed to be ratified.
		Some constitutions contain a preamble or opening clause whose specific purpose is to describe the nature of the political community and to give expression to its goals and values.
		In either case, the constitution works on two levels: on a practical level, as a document that guides the state in its operations; and on a symbolic level, as a document that outlines the type of political community that the state will serve and that its citizens are called upon to support.
	www.queensu.ca /politics/polscd/111/pols111week10.html (1358 words)

	Human Rights Program
		In 1992, renewed efforts for constitutional reform, which included extensive public consultations, culminated in a new constitutional accord (the Charlottetown Accord), with the support of the federal government, the governments of the ten provinces and two territories, and the leaders of Canada's four national Aboriginal associations.
		Although the Charlottetown Accord did not result in constitutional amendment, the referendum and the public discussions preceding it gave Canadians an opportunity to participate fully in the democratic process, and consider and debate issues of national concern.
		After the referendum, constitutional reform debates were put aside for the time being, while governments turned their attention to pressing economic and other issues.
	www.pch.gc.ca /ddp-hrd/docs/iccpr/intro_e.cfm?nav=0 (1110 words)

	The History of Canada's Constitutional Development (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Furthermore, the Constitution gave authority to Parliament to establish a general court of appeal for Canada: the Supreme Court of Canada, created by Parliament in 1875, is now the final referee of constitutional disputes between the federal and provincial governments; moreover, its judges are named by the federal government.
		The Meech Lake Accord failed to pass because it was not adopted by the legislative assemblies of Newfoundland and Manitoba within the three-year deadline.
		The high profile failures to amend the Constitution under the terms of the Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accords may have created the perception that constitutional change is not possible.
	www.pco-bcp.gc.ca /AIA/default.asp?Language=E&Page=consfile&Sub=ThehistoryofConstitution (5252 words)

	Multicultural Canada
		And, according to the same census, those reporting French as a mother tongue made up 4.85 percent of the population of Prince Edward Island, 4.4 percent of the population of Nova Scotia, and 34.6 percent of the population of New Brunswick.
		According to a major study carried out in the 1950s, the extended family was of major importance to Nova Scotia’s Acadians; visits among relatives were frequent and economic aid was sought and given between family members.
		According to this version of events, the Acadians were victims pure and simple, people who had been unjustly treated but were still undefeated: their story was one of moral victory snatched from the jaws of defeat.
	www.multiculturalcanada.ca /ecp/content/acadians.html (17866 words)

	Dialogue Canada - Practical Guide to 1995 Referendum
		The Pequistes therefore will be according more priority in their strategy to francophones living outside Montreal, who are undecided or swing supporters of sovereignty, and are male and modestly well off, while addressing the concerns of those who are nationalists but have worries about change that may be damaging.
		These swing nationalists generally accord little credit to the federal system and want to reduce the power of the anglophone majority while showing their displeasure over the failure of the Meech Lake Accord and the refusal of all gains to Quebec after 30 years of constitutional negotiations.
		According to their 1990 Green Book platform, Canada is one, single nation in which all the regions must be treated equally, and freedom of speech is the corner stone of language policy -- all positions which make a frontal attack on Quebec's aspirations.
	www.uni.ca /dialoguecanada/trent_guide.html (14843 words)

	CONSTITUTIONAL POLITICS IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES
		The patriated constitution and Charter of Rights and Freedoms of 1982, as this anthology explains, were attempts at countering Quebec nationalism with a broader Canadian nationalism.
		This was in response to two failed attempts to placate Quebec’s constitutional worries, the Meech Lake and Charlottetown accords of 1987 and 1992.
		Despite the attention given to important court decisions, constitutional politics are viewed as a broader process in Canada, involving parliament, the courts, and the provincial governments.
	www.bsos.umd.edu /gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/Newman404.htm (1600 words)

	Canadian Monarchist News
		The constitutional model that was voted on for a president elected by Parliament and a president who could be dismissed by the Prime Minister was not trusted.
		Constitutional monarchy, its mythology and the 1975 John Kerr incident aside, works just as well in Australia as it does in Canada.
		I believe similarly most Canadians will not want a constitutional debate on this issue, and the inevitable political paralysis that accompanies it paralysis we experienced during the 1978-82 Trudeau reforms and the subsequent Meech Lake and Charlottetown constitutional accords.
	www.monarchist.ca /cmn/referen.htm (2727 words)

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		I have been told by politicians and policy experts everywhere that "reopening the Constitution" is politically impossible.
		They say Canadians are still suffering "fatigue"from the failed Meech Lake and Charlottetown constitutional accords.
		He said federalists must never allow an emotional desire for national unity and uniformity to override the federal principle on which their union was created.
	calsun.canoe.ca /News/Columnists/Byfield_Link/2006/04/28/pf-1554470.html (600 words)

	Liberal Party of Canada - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Others, such as John Turner, supported the failed Meech Lake and Charlottetown Constitutional Accords, which would have recognized Quebec as a "distinct society" and would have increased the powers of the provinces to the detriment of the federal government.
		Under the party's new leader, John Turner, the Liberals lost power in the 1984 election, and were reduced to only 40 seats in the House of Commons.
		The Bloc capitalized on discontent with the failure of the 1990 Meech Lake Accord and Chrétien's uncompromising stance on federalism (see below) to win the most seats in Quebec in every election from 1993 onward, even serving as the official opposition from 1993 to 1997.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/LPOC (4491 words)

	Conventions Charlottetown 04 Content - Conventions Charlottetown 04 Resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		in 1992 the yes side for the charlottetown accord outspent the no side by a factor of thirteen to one.
		Of the meech lake and charlottetown constitutional accords 2 2,178,303 16.04.
		According to Democratic National Committee DNC rules, convention delegates must be evenly divided between women and men, and include certain numbers of minorities.
	www.conventioncentral.info /conventions-charlottetown-04.html (807 words)

	Parti libéral du Québec - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		When Bourassa returned as Premier in 1985, he successfully persuaded the federal Progressive Conservative government of Brian Mulroney to recognize Québec as a distinct society, and sought greater powers for the Quebec and the other provinces.
		This resulted in the Meech Lake and Charlottetown constitutional accords.
		In 1993, after the failure of the Charlottetown Accord, many nationalist members of the Liberal party led by Jean Allaire and Mario Dumont, including many from the party's youth wing, left to form the Action démocratique du Québec because of the Liberal party's refusal to endorse independence.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Quebec_Liberal_Party (1181 words)

	Pierre Elliot Trudeau & the demise of liberal Canadian nationalism
		According to his biographer he was alarmed by the growth of social inequality and the increasingly overt subordination of all political questions to big business's bottom-line.
		His interventions are believed to have been pivotal in the defeat of the Meech Lake and Charlottetown Constitutional Accords.
		Significantly, given his public record of opposition to ethnic nationalism, Trudeau did not object to the Chretien Liberal government's flirtation with the movement to partition Quebec, in the event of a majority vote for Quebec's secession.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/oct2000/trud-o10.shtml (2134 words)

	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Liberal Party of Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Others, such as John Turner, supported the failed Meech Lake and Charlottetown Constitutional Accords, which would have recognized Quebec as a "distinct society"?title=and would have increased the powers of the provinces to the detriment of the federal government.
		Ontario and Quebec are guaranteed a majority of seats in the House of Commons under both Constitution Acts (59 percent of the seats as of 2006).
		However, the Liberals were not able to recover their traditional dominant position in Quebec despite being led by a Quebecer from a strongly nationalist region of Quebec.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Liberal_Party_of_Canada (5110 words)

	The Man behind Stephen Harper: Full Article : IMC Maritimes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		According to Flanagan, not only did Riel view himself as its chief prophet -- an heir to the Biblical King David -- but he went to the gallows convinced that, Christ-like, he would rise again on the third day.
		Not only did Anderson personally disagree with one of Reform's key platform planks -- opposition to the Charlottetown constitutional accords -- he had a conflict of interest: his firm, Hill & Knowlton, was the government's lobbyist for the referendum on the subject.
		According to well-placed sources, MacKay was shut out of the party's inner circle and given virtually no role in the election campaign.
	maritimes.indymedia.org /print.php?id=8351&comments=yes (9206 words)

	Canadian Conservative Forum - Requested Essay
		It is essential that the electorate should be able to choose freely between parties supporting the welfare state and parties recommending retrenchment and the transfer of responsibilities to the private sphere.
		The various interests and governments that were engaged in drafting the Meech and Charlottetown Accords were attempting to promote the particular demands of their political followers and clients by means of constitutional reform.
		They did not distinguish between constitutional reform and social reform, or between the constitutional process and the political process.
	www.conservativeforum.org /EssaysForm.asp?ID=6064 (1543 words)

	Macleans.ca \| Polls \| Bumpy Ride (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Among them was an emerging belief that we could not continue to rely so much on government; doing so would lay ourselves open to the very vulnerabilities we were trying to avoid.
		We recognized that the country was facing ongoing problems -- economic, social, constitutional -- but saw these largely as aberrations that could be resolved with effort.
		By the time of the divisive 1988 election, which the Tories won on a free-trade platform, Canadians had realized that, while they desired change in the abstract, it didn't come without dislocation and new threats.
	www.macleans.ca /topstories/polls/article.jsp?content=20031229_72597_72597 (1196 words)

	Sameer’s article on Quebec
		In 1982, the federal government won true independence from Britain, establishing or “repatriating,” with the agreement of the British Parliament, its own constitution.
		The Liberals embarked on a decade-long program of engagement with Ottawa, attempting to reconcile the constitutional differences.
		However, the Meech Lake and Charlottetown Constitutional Accords, which would both have admitted Quebec officially into the new Dominion, recognized its “distinct society” status, and elevated the nationwide status of French, could not muster enough approval in Quebec and other provinces.
	www.sameerdoshi.com /Quebec.html (2408 words)

	CTV.ca \| Rae trying to persuade Liberals of his loyalty
		As he prepares to take the plunge Monday into the leadership race, Rae's gate-crasher status is one of two major liabilities he must overcome if he hopes to win the contest to succeed Paul Martin.
		The flawlessly bilingual Rae is also expected to highlight national unity, advocating the need for a strong central government but also a flexible approach to the provinces.
		A champion of both the failed Meech Lake and Charlottetown constitutional accords, Rae is well respected in the Liberals' former fortress of Quebec, where the party is desperate to rebuild.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060423/bob_rae_060423/20060423?hub=Canada (870 words)

	www.straight.com - print page
		As leader of the Reform Party of Canada during the late 1980s and 1990s, Manning repeatedly favoured slashing social programs and opposed the Meech Lake and Charlottetown constitutional accords.
		During the same period as the NDP leader and premier of Ontario, Rae favoured greater government intervention in the economy and more social programs, and supported Meech Lake and Charlottetown.
		According to Statistics Canada, the average undergraduate tuition fees in B.C. were $4,874 in 2005/2006.
	www.straight.com /Print_Page.cfm?id=17442 (1193 words)

	AEI - Short Publications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		During the 1980 Quebec referendum, Trudeau had promised major constitutional reform if Quebec voted "no." Quebecers did as asked--and Trudeau then pushed through a constitutional package that the government of Quebec refused to ratify.
		They didn't quite win their second referendum in 1995, but they are poised to try again in another year or two.
		It all seems a very high price to pay to uphold Trudeau's dreamy utopian vision of what a constitution should look like if only language, ethnicity, history and culture mattered as little to the rest of humanity as they did to him.
	www.aei.org /publications/pubID.23214,filter.all/pub_detail.asp (748 words)

	David Orchard: 1998 PC Leadership Race
		Despite consistent support in Quebec for both ideas, Orchard told a Montreal audience that if he becomes the next Tory leader he will lead a campaign to get out of the deal and then have the country lead the charge t end to further crippling economic globalization.
		As for the constitutional debate, Orchard said the way to make Quebecers proud to be Canadians is by boosting the economy.
		He personally opposed the Meech Lake and Charlottetown constitutional accords because they would have left the central government too weak.
	www.davidorchard.com /online/media-1998/wakeuptonafta.html (525 words)

	Liberal Party of Canada
		Others, such as John Turner and Paul Martin, supported the failed Meech Lake and Charlottetown Constitutional Accords, which recognized Quebec as a distinct society and would have increased the powers of the provinces to the detriment of the federal government.
		Under the party's new leader, John Turner, the Liberals lost power in the 1984 Canadian election and were reduced to only 40 seats in the House of Commons.
		He is expected to continue these policies, though there is also speculation that he will be more flexible on the issue of federalism and possible constitutional concessions to Quebec and the other provinces.
	www.askfactmaster.com /LPOC (2265 words)

	Ministry of the Attorney General - Constitutional Law Branch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Constitutional Law Branch consists of 13 lawyers who advise all ministries on questions of constitutional law and policy and engage in litigation at all levels of court including the Supreme Court of Canada.
		Branch lawyers appear on behalf of the government primarily in non-criminal constitutional cases.
		These encompass the process of constitutional amendment, alternative arrangements for national unity, and include matters involving aboriginal rights and related constitutional initiatives such as the Framework Agreement on the Social Union, and the Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accords.
	www.attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca /english/about/artcl/2006-7/const.asp (371 words)

	Liberal Party of Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Others such as John Turner and Paul Martin supported the failed Meech Lake and Charlottetown Constitutional Accords which recognised Quebec as a distinct and would have increased the powers of provinces to the detriment of the federal
		Under the party's new leader John Turner Liberals lost power in the 1984 Canadian election and were reduced to only 40 in the House of Commons.
		He is to continue these policies though there is speculation that he will be more flexible the issue of federalism and possible constitutional concessions to Quebec the other provinces.
	www.freeglossary.com /Liberal_Party_of_Canada (1967 words)

	The Ultimate Liberal Party of Canada Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
		Others, such as John Turner and Paul Martin, supported the failed Meech Lake and Charlottetown Constitutional Accords, which would have recognized Quebec as a "distinct society" and would have increased the powers of the provinces to the detriment of the federal government.
		He is expected to continue these policies, although there is also speculation that he will be more flexible on the issue of federalism and possible constitutional concessions to Quebec and the other provinces.
		In the June 28th, 2004 federal election, the Martin Liberals were returned to governemnt, despite fierce competition from the Conservative Party led by Stephen Harper.
	www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/LPOC (2906 words)

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