POLI 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Charlottetown Accord, Veto, Distinct Society
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Assembly passed bill 150, required a referendum on sovereignty to be put to the people of qc by october 26, 2013. > many did not approve of this as it would greatly weaken the country as a whole. Aboriginals too would have self-government: this failed attempt at constitutional reparation between the federal govt and qc had a similar. Do or die atmosphere as the meech lake accord. Meech plus or minus: the response to quebec: same five parts of lake meech were present in charlottetown, but taken even further > Ottawa: every province would have a greater capacity to veto further constitutional proposals due to the proposed changes in the amending formula. > it appeared the government would be prepared to defend/take action and presumably spend money to defend some groups but not others: some canadian groups were out of the canada clause altogether. Clause looked over equality for physically or mentally disabled individuals and possibly discriminated against age.
