POSC 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Elijah Harper, Charlottetown Accord, Official Multilingualism
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Brian mulroney did not share pierre trudeau"s constitutional philosophy. Mulroney, in face didn"t actually have much of a constitutional philosophy; he was a business man & a deal maker. He was thus open to quebec"s request for special recognition. Trudeau had three constitutional principles: official bilingualism, quebec is a province like all the others, the charter would act as an instrument of unity. The meech lake accord drowns in june 1990: After the trudeau attack on meech lake, the accord slowly unravels. Meech was a formal constitutional amendment that had to be passed by the federal parliament and all ten provinces. Over the course of three years, some of the provincial governments that consented to the accord lost elections, and the new governments were less supportive of the accord. The main opposition came from newfoundland, but ultimately the accord failed in. Fallout from the failure of charlottetown: another referendum in quebec (1995):
