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* 1992 – The Charlottetown Accord fails to win majority support in a Canada wide referendum.
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1992 and Charlottetown
The most recent was a referendum in 1992 on a package of proposed constitutional measures known as the Charlottetown Accord.
This failure sparked a revival of Quebec separatism, and led to another round of meetings in Charlottetown in 1991 and 1992.
Other proposed amendments to the Constitution, included in the Charlottetown Accord of 1992, were never passed.
In 1992, as the national referendum on the Charlottetown Accord and the release of a report on the NovaTel incident loomed, Getty decided to leave politics.
During his tenure at the helm of CBC's flagship newscast beginning May 1, 1988 ( as co-anchor of CBC Prime Time News from November 1992 to fall 1995, and as sole anchor of The National otherwise ), he has covered Canadian news stories including federal elections, party leadership conventions, the Meech Lake Accord negotiations, the Charlottetown Accord and its referendum, the 1995 Quebec referendum, floods in Manitoba in 1997, ice storms in Ontario and Quebec in 1998, the six days in September 2000 that marked the death and state funeral of Pierre Trudeau, the 2003 blackout across much of Eastern North America and the death and state funeral of Jack Layton.
In a deviation from their traditional position as staunch federalists, the NDP chose to align itself with the Liberals and Conservatives on the " yes " side of the 1992 Charlottetown Accord.
Since the courts would not be of much use in interpreting the section, the section was nearly amended in 1992 with the Charlottetown Accord to make it enforceable.
It was significantly due to Boyer's efforts that the Charlottetown Accord of 1992 was submitted to a public referendum.
The Charlottetown Accord () was a package of proposed amendments to the Constitution of Canada, proposed by the Canadian federal and provincial governments in 1992.
On August 28, 1992, after intensive negotiations in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, the federal, provincial and territorial governments, and representatives from the Assembly of First Nations, the Native Council of Canada, the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada and the Métis National Council, came to the agreement known as the " Charlottetown Accord ".
Dumont organized the " Liberals for the No side ," in the 1992 referendum on the Charlottetown Accord.
Efforts to reform the Canadian constitution in order recognize Quebec's specificity ( or distinct society ) and provide a means to accommodate its need for greater autonomy have resulted in the Meech Lake Accord which collapsed before it came into effect and the Charlottetown Accord which was rejected by a majority of Canadians and also a majority of Quebecers in referendum in 1992.
She also volunteered as assistant to the Chief Organizer of the NO committee in Saint-Lambert during the 1995 Quebec referendum, and was a volunteer on the YES committee during the 1992 Charlottetown Accord referendum.
He supported the 1987 free trade initiative, and worked in favour of the Charlottetown Accord ( a successor to Meech Lake ) in 1992.
Ghiz favoured concessions to Quebec in constitutional negotiations and campaigned for the Charlottetown Accord, resigning three months after the accord was defeated in a 1992 referendum.
A strong opponent of the Meech Lake Accords, Carstairs remained party leader and, in 1992, campaigned for the " No " side on the Charlottetown Accord, with financial assistance from former Manitoba Liberal Party leader Israel Asper.
The 1992 referendum on the Charlottetown Accord was widely interpreted of a rejection of Canada's political elite by the general population.
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