Meech Lake Accord
1982 was the year that the federal parliament and nine out of ten provincial legislatures agreed on the Constitution Act, which would bring the constitution home from Britain to Canada on April 17, 1982. The only legislature that did not agree was Quebec. Quebec refused to participate in this constitutional process of patriation because the province believed it did not address their political concerns and issues. People constantly talked of the need to bring Quebec into the constitution. They hoped that this would finally end the constitutional problem that had plagued Canada for more than a generation. On April 30th 1987, Mulroney met with ten premiers in an attempt to win their final approval for constitutional changes designed to overcome Quebec’s objections to the 1982 pact. Mulroney and the ten premiers reached a constitutional agreement that was acceptable to Premier Robert Bourassa of Quebec. This was known as The Meech Lake Accord of 1987. This Accord, named after the location where the conference was held, recognized Quebec as a “distinct society”. All the provinces shared with Quebec the other articles included in the Accord, namely greater provincial control over immigration, the pow
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Approximate Word count = 1753
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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