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	Meech Lake and Canada: Perspectives from the West. by Deborah Coyne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Meech Lake and Canada: Perspectives from the West.
		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)

	Meech Lake Accord - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Meech Lake Accord set of constitutional reforms designed to induce Quebec to accept the Canada Act.
		The Accord's five basic points, proposed by Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa, include a guarantee of Quebec's special status as a "distinct society" and a commitment to Canada's linguistic duality.
		Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and all the provincial premiers agreed to the Accord on Apr. 30, 1987, though strong doubts were expressed by the premiers of Ontario and Manitoba, and by several women's and Native American rights groups.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-MeechLak.html (364 words)

	The Prime Ministers of Canada - Brian Mulroney Biography
		Meech Lake gave Québec control over immigration to that province, agreed that Senate appointments would be made from a list submitted by the provinces, recognized Québec as a "distinct society," allowed provinces to opt out of federal schemes provided they introduced their own, and established a formula for changing the constitution.
		The Accord also specified a deadline of June 22, 1990 to have the Accord passed by the House of Commons and the legislatures of all provinces.
		The Accord was rejected by 6 provinces and the Yukon in a national referendum on Oct 26, 1992.
	www.primeministers.ca /mulroney/bio_6.php?PHPSESSID=787c95c0aa91e5f0f9aa09370f1c055d (450 words)

	Immigration: the Canada-Quebec Accord(BP-252E)
		In section 2 of the Accord, an important new objective for Quebec was introduced: to preserve Quebec’s demographic weight within Canada and to integrate immigrants to the province in a manner that respects the distinct society of Quebec.
		The Canada-Quebec Accord incorporates the Meech Lake Accord commitment that Quebec should receive the same percentage of the total number of immigrants admitted to Canada as is its percentage of the Canadian population, with the right to exceed this figure by 5%, for demographic reasons.
		The Accord states that "a representative of the Department of External Affairs and International Trade" was to be a member of the Committee, a formalization of past practice; however, this would seem to be redundant now that Citizenship and Immigration Canada has resumed responsibility for overseas processing.
	dsp-psd.communication.gc.ca /Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/bp252-e.htm (2410 words)

	The Meech Lake Accord
		In addition to recognizing Quebec's status as a distinct society, the Accord acknowledged that Quebec's minority Anglophone population and the minority francophone populations found across the country constituted a fundamental characteristic of Canada.
		This signified the death of the Meech Lake Accord.
		According to some people, it provides a forum for improving relations between the federal government and the provinces.
	www.histori.ca /peace/page.do?pageID=260 (738 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Meech Lake Accord
		The Meech Lake Accord was a set of failed amendments to the Constitution of Canada negotiated in 1987 by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and the provincial premiers, including Robert Bourassa, premier of Quebec.
		The accord was negotiated at a meeting between Mulroney and provincial premiers at Willson House at Meech Lake in the Gatineau Hills in 1987.
		Because the accord would have changed the constitution's amending formula and modified the Supreme Court, it needed to obtain the consent of all provincial and federal legislatures within three years.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Meech_Lake_Accord (1365 words)

	Meech Lake? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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.
		Harper, a New Democratic MLA from the riding of Rupertsland in northern Manitoba and a former chief of the Ojibway-Cree community of Red Sucker Lake, was an obscure backbencher when the controversy began.
		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)

	The constitutional debate from Meech to Charlottetown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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.
		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.
		The one major new element in the Charlottetown Accord was an agreement to readjust representation in the House of Commons to better reflect representation by population to respond to pressures from populous Ontario and fast-growing British Columbia.
	www.pco-bcp.gc.ca /aia/default.asp?Language=E&Page=consfile&Sub=Theconstitutionaldebate (7886 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.
	web.ncf.ca /ag384/MeechLake.htm (2336 words)

	Definition of Meech Lake Accord
		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.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Meech_Lake_Accord (361 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.
		Meech Lake was defeated in June 1990 when the time limit for its ratification expired.
		According to Mandel, all of these "Constitutional Authorities" were pro-Accord (and hence why they were picked for the job) and used their opinions to transform the "distinct society clause" into a "duality-distinct society clause" via their letter.
	www.yorku.ca /igreene/smith.html (2493 words)

	January 31:
		The "Meech Lake Accord," as it became known, would have amended the constitution to implement the package primarily with the seven-fifty formula, but the changes to Part V itself would have required unanimous consent.
		A constitutional conference was held in 1990 that resulted in modifications to the Meech Lake Accord that brought New Brunswick on board, but the premiers of Newfoundland and Manitoba could not guarantee that their legislatures would implement the Accord.
		It was during the Meech Lake debate that the SCC came down with the Ford decision, in which they stated that the Quebec government’s desire to preserve its language and culture constituted a substantially important objective that might justify limiting rights and freedoms in the Charter.
	www.yorku.ca /igreene/JAN31.html (1268 words)

	Meech Lake Accord
		Native Canadians were not included in the accord, which Mulroney and the provincial premiers presented at their triumphant news conference as a "breakthrough in the relations between Canada's two founding nations, French and English".
		There was an immediate outcry from Native Canadians, and the government frantically tried to reassure them that Meech Lake was nothing more than a gesture towards Quebec, a way of achieving national harmony and defusing separatism.
		The deadline for passing the Meech Lake Accord was June 23, 1990.
	www.macewanpr.ca /eve04/andreab/meech.htm (244 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)

	Le blog de Polyscopique: À la recherche du lac Meech (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		What was in Meech: The Meech Lake Accord would have amended the Canadian constitution to ensure that "[t]he Constitution of Canada shall be interpreted in a manner consistent with [...] the recognition that Quebec constitutes within Canada a distinct society".
		Meech would also have given every province the right to opt out, with reasonable compensation, from a constitutional amendment transfering legislative powers from provincial legislatures to Parliament.
		What was in Meech: The Meech Lake Accord stated the intent of the government of Canada and government of Québec to conclude an agreement that would give Québec increased powers over the selection, reception and integration of immigrants wishing to settle in Québec.
	www.polyscopique.com /blog/archives/000990.html (2135 words)

	1987 Constitutional Accord (Meech Lake Accord)
		Provinces negotiating agreements should be accorded equality of treatment with respect to terms and conditions of agreements in relation to any other province that has already concluded an agreement, taking into account the different needs and circumstances of the provinces.
		The Accord commits governments to negotiate: self-government agreements; lands and resources; the transfer of the portion of Aboriginal programs and services available to Metis; and cost sharing arrangements relating to Metis institutions, programs and services.
		The Accord defines the Metis for the purpose of the Metis Nation Accord and commits governments to enumerate and register the Metis Nation.
	www.cbv.ns.ca /bec/french/charlott.htm (6338 words)

	The New Brunswick Companion Resolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Meech Lake Accord affirms the role of Parliament to preserve one of Canada's fundamental characteristics--linguistic duality.
		The Meech Lake Accord would also change the amending formula required for the creation of new provinces from the 2/3 of the provinces with 50% of the population to unanimity.
		A concern addressed in the New Brunswick Companion Resolution in relation to section 16 of the Meech Lake Accord is to the effect that the Charter is overridden by the distinct society clause.
	www.solon.org /Constitutions/Canada/English/Committees/Meech_Lake_1987_Companion_Accord/cml-main.html (2723 words)

	Constitutional activity from patriation to Charlottetown (1980-1992)(BP-406E)
		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.
	dsp-psd.communication.gc.ca /Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/bp406-e.htm (6902 words)

	The History of Canada's Constitutional Development (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Agreement in principle was reached on a package of amendments at Meech Lake on April 30, 1987, and on a legal text at the Langevin Building on June 3 of that year.
		However, the Meech Lake Accord ultimately failed to be ratified within the three-year deadline and died on June 23, 1990.
		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.
	www.pco-bcp.gc.ca /aia/default.asp?Language=E&Page=consfile&Sub=ThehistoryofConstitution (5252 words)

	Meech Lake Accord - AskTheBrain.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Quebec had come aboard, but the new Constitution Act, known as the Meech Lake accord, had to be ratified by the Parliament of Canada and all 10 provincial legislatures within three years.
		As the Meech Lake constitutional accord was unraveling in early 1990, Bouchard announced that he was resigning his cabinet post and leaving the Conservatives to set up his own separatist party.
		And because the Meech Lake accord states in the same breath that "Quebec constitutes, within Canada, a distinct society" and that "the role of the legislature and government to preserve and promote (this) distinct society.
	www.askthebrain.com /accord_lake_meech-.html (414 words)

	CORRESPONDENCE: LETTER FROM CANADA -- CRAP Happens by Sean Scallon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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 Keywords - Centre for Constitutional Studies - University of Alberta
		The ‘Meech Lake Accord’ recognized the province of Quebec as constituting a distinct society within Canada.
		The Accord also constitutionalized the federal-provincial consultative process by requiring that at least one First Ministers’ meeting be held annually and by requiring that the issues of Senate reform and the fisheries be discussed at those meetings.
		To become law, the Accord had to be ratified by Parliament and the legislatures of all the provinces in accordance with section 41 of the Constitution Act, 1867.
	www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca /ccs/keywords.cfm?keyword=38 (786 words)

	ETHNIC PEACE ACCORDS AND ETHNIC CONFLICT RESOLUTION
		Accord was the result of three years of preliminary negotiations and several months of intensive negotiations, following the accession of the Nimieri Government.
		According to Touval, mediating powers in the Arab-Israeli conflict had strong national security interests in the outcome and were often biased toward one side or the other.
		The story of Camp David Accords illustrates that partial resolution of ethnic conflicts may sometimes be possible without military victory; it also illustrates that the task of framing a sustainable ethnic peace accord should not be undertaken lightly, nor with any certainty about the outcome.
	www.american.edu /jrich/Richardson.peace.html (6778 words)

	Meech Lake Accord - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Meech Lake Accord - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Meech Lake Accord, agreement by the prime minister of Canada and the premiers of all ten provinces to amend the constitution of Canada and thereby...
		The Meech Lake Accord was an agreement to amend the constitution of Canada so that its provisions would be acceptable to the province of Québec.
	encarta.msn.com /Meech_Lake_Accord.html (93 words)

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