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	Meech Lake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Meech Lake is a lake in the Gatineau Hills near Gatineau, Quebec, Canada.
		The lake is located within Gatineau Park and the National Capital Commission operates a beach on the lake during the summer.
		Near the lake, on Meech Creek, are the ruins of a fertilizer plant built by Thomas "Carbide" Willson during the 1900s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Meech_Lake (175 words)

	Meech Lake Accord - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Meech Lake Accord was a set of failed constitutional amendments to the Constitution of Canada proposed by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Robert Bourassa, premier of Quebec.
		The accord was negotiated at a meeting between Mulroney and provincial premiers at Meech Lake in the Gatineau Hills in 1987.
		The Meech Lake Accord was followed up by a successor proposal known as the Charlottetown Accord, which also failed to be ratified.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Meech_Lake_Accord (321 words)

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		It is a narrow lake, one of a chain of three in a ridge of hills.
		Meech Lake residents would look at the nudists through binoculars and be offended.
		The N end of the lake beyond the swimming beach is a shallow bay containing a variety of aquatic plants such as yellow water lilies and arrow leaf.
	www.ncf.carleton.ca /~ag384/MeechLake.htm (2336 words)

	The constitutional debate from Meech to Charlottetown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		At the technical level, the demise of Meech may be attributed to the failure to achieve unanimous ratification by Parliament and the legislative assemblies of the provinces within the three-year time limit prescribed by the Constitution.
		On the eve of the negotiation of the Meech Lake Accord, the precedents for constitutional negotiation were becoming complex.
		The Quebec Liberal Party reaffirmed its support for Meech in February 1990 during the last period of the Meech Lake ratification process, and established an internal commission, under the chairmanship of Jean Allaire, to develop a constitutional position for the round of negotiations that would follow the proclamation of Meech.
	www.pco-bcp.gc.ca /aia?Language=E&Page=consfile&Sub=Theconstitutionaldebate (7886 words)

	Meech Lake Accord -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The accord was negotiated at a meeting between Mulroney and provincial premiers at (Click link for more info and facts about Meech Lake) Meech Lake in the (Click link for more info and facts about Gatineau Hills) Gatineau Hills in 1987.
		The Meech Lake Accord was followed up by a successor proposal known as the (Click link for more info and facts about Charlottetown Accord) Charlottetown Accord, which also failed to be ratified.
		A (A film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event) documentary film was released in 1992 about the Quebec point of view of the accord's demise called (Click link for more info and facts about Le Mouton noir) Le Mouton noir.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/me/meech_lake_accord.htm (400 words)

	Macleans.ca \| Top Stories \| A Life Of Its Own (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		One of the casualties of the Meech Lake debacle was so-called executive federalism -- the practice of the premiers and the Prime Minister using their get-togethers as deal-cutting, agenda-setting summits.
		Using that procedural tactic to prevent Meech Lake from being passed by the deadline was first discussed by Harper and Phil Fontaine, then head of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, a few weeks earlier over breakfast at a Winnipeg's Charter House diner.
		Although Wells was never reconciled to Meech Lake, he agreed to at least put it to a vote in Newfoundland after a last-ditch effort to save the deal.
	www.macleans.ca /topstories/article.jsp?content=35852 (2985 words)

	Meech Lake and Canada: Perspectives from the West. by Deborah Coyne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The recent election of a third provincial government opposed to the Meech Lake Accord in its present form has hammered the last nail in the coffin of the accord.
		Analysis and criticism of both the substance of and the process leading to the Meech Lake Accord is therefore critical.
		Of course, regional aspirations, grievances, and interests have played a significant role in the Meech Lake opposition, particularly since the chances for Senate reform a primary means by which the west hopes to strengthen its voice and influence in the national government have been effectively nullified by the Meech Lake Accord.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/chr/704/meech21.html (1108 words)

	Canada's Species at Risk Act (SARA)
		Although the dwarf smelt population in Meech Lake appears to have become established, no reliable data are available to confirm this, and numbers of dwarf smelt in Lake Utopia are thought to be in decline.
		Lake Utopia is a coldwater lake that is frozen from early December until the first or second week in April.
		The Lake Utopia dwarf smelt is a distinct population—or possibly a subspecies—of the rainbow smelt species, so called because of the way they colourfully shimmer as they dart through the water.
	www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca /species-especes/species/species_lakeUtopia_dwarfSmelt_e.asp (552 words)

	Meech Lake? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The controversies over the Meech Lake Accord, an important part of Canadian political history, was occurring just prior to the standoff at Oka, and may have had some impact on the interactions there.
		When the Meech Lake deadline expired on June 23, Elijah Harper had defeated the accord, and he had become a national hero to Canada's aboriginal people.
		The death of Meech Lake was hailed as a victory by Indians in every corner of the country.
	www.campus-adr.org /Webquest/MeechLake.htm (318 words)

	CORRESPONDENCE: LETTER FROM CANADA -- CRAP Happens by Sean Scallon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Thanks to Meech Lake, Quebec came within a hairsbreadth of taking its place among the nations of the world in a referendum on secession in 1995.
		Meech Lake was the end of an era.
		Meech Lake supporters insist that, if the accord had passed, Canada would have had constitutional peace for 30 years.
	www.chroniclesmagazine.org /Chronicles/October2000/1000Scallon.htm (1658 words)

	Constitutional Activity from Patriation to Charlottetown (1980-1992) (BP406e) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For the next three years, the Meech Lake Accord was at the centre of a national debate involving constitutional committees in most provinces, and an increasingly rancorous discussion over the appropriate process for constitutional amendment.
		The Meech Lake Accord reflected the second of these possibilities: that Quebec was sufficiently distinct to affect the interpretation of the Constitution.
		An agreement similar to that envisaged in the Meech Lake Accord, between the federal and the Quebec Ministers of Immigration, came into force on 1 April 1991, and was consistent with the Cullen-Couture agreement in most ways.
	www.parl.gc.ca /information/library/PRBpubs/bp406-e.htm (7093 words)

	Meech Lake Accord (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Meech Lake Accord was an agreement reached by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and the ten provincial premiers in 1987.
		It was named for the place the meetings were held, at Meech Lake, Que.
		At the Meech Lake meetings, Prime Minister Mulroney and the premiers produced a new agreement, with the following terms:
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=J1ARTJ0005208 (498 words)

	Interhange.Canada: the Meech_Lake.html File I found
		In addition to the clubs, parks, and resorts in the area, there is a small area on the shores of Meech Lake that is often frequented by nudists.
		MEECH LAKE is located in Gatineau Park, just across the Ottawa River from Ottawa in Quebec.
		The road you are on will take you directly to the lake, although some park signs may suggest that you take a longer route.
	www3.sympatico.ca /rd.fournier/inter.canada/cartoon/meech_nu.htm (1017 words)

	Meech Lake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This part of Meech Lake is Single, Couple, and Family oriented.
		Meech is recognized by the F.C.N. and the Ottawa Naturists.
		If you have ANY photos of the Meech Lake area that you would care to share.You may e-mail them to me and I will be setting up some pages so all the visitors can see what Meech Looks like.
	www.meechlake.wolfsstudios.com (372 words)

	The Meech Lake Accord
		The Meech Lake Accord as created to address all these challenges, and to bring Quebec into the constitution and to amend the constitution to answer the concerns of other groups as well.
		The Meech Lake Accord was Canada's first attempt at major political reform under its patriated constitution, and also its first attempt to amend its own constitution.
		This accord is considered a test of the strength of the constitution and the new amending formula.
	members.tripod.com /pc9899/cc/meechlake.html (547 words)

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		Indeed, not content with distorting actual historical events, Meech devotees have gone so far as to invent a complete alternative history of the last decade, on the premise that the accord, rather than expire that day in the legislatures of Manitoba and Newfoundland, had actually passed.
		Some have said the limitations on the federal spending power under the recent social union agreement are as far-reaching as Meech, which guaranteed federal compensation for provinces that opted out of shared-cost social programs, provided their own program was "compatible with the national objectives." This is quite wrong.
		The social union was an agreement, in which the feds won several important concessions from the provinces; Meech was a set of constitutional amendments, in which the provinces gave up nothing.
	andrewcoyne.com /columns/NationalPost/2000/20000623.html (942 words)

	The Meech Lake Accord pg 97
		Meech Lake also provided a clause that created a mechanism for putting in place agreements between the federal government and any province to give that province control over immigration.
		Mandel argues that if Meech Lake had been ratified it would have meant the expansion of the domain of legalized politics.
		Meech Lake was defeated in June 1990 when the time limit for its ratification expired.
	www.yorku.ca /igreene/smith.html (2493 words)

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		The debate on Meech Lake is not really about Quebec's place in Confederation, nor about the division of powers between the federal and provincial governments.
		On the one hand, constant reference is made to the ''miracle'' of Meech Lake in achieving unanimity as an argument against reopening the accord.
		Conversely, the ''impossibility'' of achieving unanimity again on Meech Lake is only a fact so long as its proponents insist it is. There is no reason to think an agreement could not be struck that met Quebec's bottom-line concerns, without Meech Lake's extra baggage.
	andrewcoyne.com /columns/FinancialPost/1990/19900101.html (1448 words)

	Distinct society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Distinct society was a political neologism used in Canada during the Meech Lake Accord debate, in the second half of the 1980s.
		The Meech Lake Accord would have recognized the difference of Quebec within Canada, and thus to implicitly recognize its peoplehood.
		During the Meech Lake Accord debate, distinct society was mainly associated with Robert Bourassa from the Parti libéral du Québec and Brian Mulroney of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
	www.free-download-soft.com /info/roulette-roulette-table.html (216 words)

	Sample hike from Historical Walks book (Meech Lake Ruins)
		You can canoe on Meech Lake: be wary; it is a big, long lake so winds blow up quickly, creating white-cap waves.
		As you cross the bridge, "big" Meech Lake is on your left; Little Meech to your right.
		On the opposite side of Meech Creek, only the base of the acid condensation tower is left: the rest was destroyed by fire.
	www.chesleyhouse.com /Books/HWsample.htm (954 words)

	Mulroney - Meech Lake Announcement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Although it remains to be formalized, it represents in the judgement of First Ministers, of all political stripes, from all areas of the country, an historic accomplishment.
		The Meech Lake Agreement springs from the Canadian tradition of honourable compromise, and is a tribute to the statesmanship and leadership of all First Ministers demonstrated yesterday at Meech Lake.
		Speaker, the Meech Lake Agreement is good for Canada, and good for Canadians.
	www.canadahistory.com /sections/documents/mulroney_-_meech_lake_announcement.htm (657 words)

	Constitutional Keywords – Meech Lake Accord (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Since, in the interim, Quebec was as legally bound as all of the other provinces by the provisions of the Canada Act 1982 and its Schedule B, the Constitution Act, 1982, the Quebec proposals also assumed a great symbolic significance.
		This package became known as the Meech Lake Constitutional Accord of 1987.
		The ‘Meech Lake Accord’ recognized the province of Quebec as constituting a distinct society within Canada.
	www.law.ualberta.ca /ccskeywords/meech_lake.html (783 words)

	Log Cabin Chronicles Peter Black's Wrath of Meech Revisited Column
		Doing my part for the Meech Lake Accord 10th anniversary post-mortem and regret-a-thon that surely has been inflicted on the nation these past few days, I reread my copy of the Bélanger-Campeau Commission report.
		Despite the fact there is this day a nominally sovereignist government in power in Quebec and it is more or less determined to force the issue of sovereignty some time in the foreseeable future, nothing in the current political landscape compares to the steely determination to call the shots expressed in the B-C report.
		Many of the Meech players are now gone from the political scene, indeed three of the original ten premiers are gone from this mortal toil.
	www.tomifobia.com /meech_wrath.html (752 words)

	American Metal Market: Canada's lost accord gets mild reaction - Canada Meech Lake Accord
		Some Canadians worried that the failure of the Meech Lake Accord late last Friday would mean a severe drop in the Canadian dollar, but there were only slight changes in trading on Monday morning.
		Saturday at midnight was the deadline for all 10 provinces to ratify changes to the constitution, known as the Meech Lake Accord, but the Manitoba and Newfoundland legislatures adjourned Friday afternoon without ratifying the accord, effectively killing it.
		The Meech Lake Accord failed because the 10 provinces were required to reach unanimous consensus on constitutional changes, analysts noted.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3MKT/is_n124_v98/ai_9175459 (594 words)

	meech lake accord (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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		So Quebec has certain thoughts or ideas or desires to do something or take on certain powers unto themselves because they believe it's better for their people then I think they ought to be given that right but that right should then be extended to every province throughout the country.
		I think Meech Lake and more especially the Charlottetown Accords were a good lesson for people in Government today.
		That's the message I get out of The Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accords is we need to change the system to allow the people a greater say.
	www.saskschools.ca /~golden_plains/grassroots/conver.html (1975 words)

	Paul-André COMEAU in Le Devoir "Manitoba and Meech Lake. Quebec Punished for Using the Notwithstanding ...
		This is the easy hypothesis being reached as the head of the government of Manitoba withdraws the resolution of support for the Meech Lake Accord.
		The Liberal leader of Opposition, Mrs Sharon Carstairs, clearly stated, last week, during The Journal, on the English CBC network that the most important reason for her opposition was the recognition of the status of "distinct society" for Quebec.
		The Prime Minister of Manitoba was spared a sharp defeat, one that would have definitely sealed the fate of this agreement negotiated in June of 1987.
	www2.marianopolis.edu /quebechistory/docs/bill178/8-4.htm (520 words)

	Put an End to the Meech Lake Accord (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Meech Lake Accord is in serious trouble and Indians should be doing everything possible to hasten its demise.
		The Meech Lake Accord is an agreement negotiated between the Premiers and the Federal Government in June of 1987.
		The Meech Lake Accord is in jeopardy and Indian people have a chance to have their case heard.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /saskindian/a89jan04.htm (463 words)

	Pierre Trudeau's Essay on the Quebec Referendum
		As for groups and associations, 19 per cent were in favor of Meech and 81 per cent were against it.
		And all those groups saying no to Meech were essentially French speaking organizations such as the three largest labor federations (CSN,FTQ,CEQ) a teachers' group (L'Alliance des professeurs de Montreal), an artists group(l'Union des artists), a writers group (l'Union des Ecrivains), a farmers' union (l'Union des Producteurs Agricoles).
		As for Quebec's political groups, the Parti Quebecois and the NDP were firmly against the Meech Lake Accord.
	www.clevernet.net /pierre_trudeau/pierre_trudeau_quebec_referendum_3.html (754 words)

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