POL214Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Pierre Trudeau, Robert Bourassa, Charlottetown Accord
10 Feb 2020
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Winter term: on october 26, 1987, parliament voted for pm mulroney"s meech lake accord. In exchange for his signature, quebec premier robert. Bourassa demanded that the constitution be amended to formally recognized quebec as a. Well, apparently it meant french-only signs in quebec for a starter. This violation of freedom of expression enraged english canada and was struck down by the supreme. In exchange for their signatures, the english-canadian premiers demanded restrictions on federal government power in provincial areas of jurisdiction. Mulroney for catering to the premiers and weakening federal authority: when the ten provincial legislatures failed to all approve meech before the 1990 deadline, The accord lost in all four western provinces, quebec & ns; it was approved in nb, nfld. , Pei, and (barely) in ontario: mulroney had fruitlessly divided the country. Party started to break up - former conservative mps in quebec to form the separatists bq, and former conservative mps in western canada formed the reform party.
