The 1997 – 2000 term was marked by the Bloc's fight against the passage of the Clarity Act, the attempt by Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien ( himself a Quebecer who represented a strongly nationalist riding ) and Stéphane Dion, a Quebec minister in Chrétien's cabinet, to codify the Supreme Court of Canada's 1998 decision that Quebec could not secede unilaterally.

He won a narrow victory as leader of the federalist camp in the 1995 Quebec Referendum, and then pioneered the Clarity Act to avoid ambiguity in future referendum questions.

Further controversy followed as Layton suggested the removal of the Clarity Act, considered by some to be vital to keeping Quebec in Canada and by others as undemocratic, and promised to recognize any declaration of independence by Quebec after a referendum.

His position on the Clarity Act was reversed in the 2006 election to one of support.

A Canadian law, the Clarity Act, and a court ruling, Reference re Secession of Quebec, set forth the conditions for negotiations to allow Canadian provinces ( though not territories ) to leave the Canadian federal state ; however, as this would require a constitutional amendment, there is no current " constitutional " method for withdrawal.

In Quebec the recently passed Clarity Act by the federal government was controversial in that it demanded a clear and concise question on a new referendum on sovereignty.

Chrétien defended the Clarity Act and attacked sovereigntist Quebec premier and former Bloc Québécois leader Lucien Bouchard, challenging him to hold another referendum on sovereignty under the new laws, as Chrétien expected that the sovereigntists would lose such a referendum.

* Clarity Act, Canadian bill C-20

He played a key role in getting the NDP Caucus to support the Clarity Act in 2000, after securing amendments that were important to First Nations groups in Quebec.

During this campaign, Blaikie openly disagreed with Layton's proposal that the Clarity Act be repealed.

Notwithstanding their disagreement over the Clarity Act, Blaikie said that he enjoyed a good working relationship with Layton in parliament.

* March 15-The House of Commons passes the Clarity Act outlining conditions for another Quebec separation referendum

Shortly after Joe Clark was elected leader of the federal Tory Party, the federal government brought forward the Clarity Act.

The Clarity Act was a Liberal Party of Canada sponsored Bill introduced by then Minister of Intergovernmental affairs Stéphane Dion.

The Clarity Act detailed specifically how the province of Quebec could separate and under what conditions a separation could be legal.

Clark chose to support Bachand and the Quebec PC Caucus MPs in the party and stated that he was against the Clarity Act while the fifteen other English MPs in the PC parliamentary Caucus voted in favour of the Bill regardless of Clark's stance.

* 1999-The Clarity Act becomes a federal law.

The Clarity Act ( known as Bill C-20 before it became law ) is legislation passed by the Parliament of Canada that established the conditions under which the Government of Canada would enter into negotiations that might lead to secession following such a vote by one of the provinces.

Although the law could theoretically be applied to any province, the Clarity Act was created in response to the 1995 Quebec referendum and ongoing independence movement in that province.

The content of the Clarity Act was based on the 1998 secession reference to the Supreme Court of Canada made by the federal government of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien.

Two days after the Clarity Act had been introduced in the Canadian House of Commons, the Parti Québécois government passed an Act respecting the exercise of the fundamental rights and prerogatives of the Québec people and the Québec State in the National Assembly of Quebec.

The motivation behind the Clarity Act was largely based on the near separation vote of the 1995 Quebec referendum, in which the people of Quebec voted against the sovereignty option by a small margin ( 50. 58 % to 49. 42 %).

The Clarity Act ( Bill C-20 ) was later drafted and presented to the House of Commons on December 13, 1999.

As Segal would write in the poem " Silence Clarity ", "...

In an interview with CTV News aired on May 15, 2005, separatist former Premier of Quebec Jacques Parizeau said that the Clarity Act " meant nothing " and would be ignored.

* that a unilateral declaration of independence by Quebec would be unconstitutional ( a debate ultimately leading to the federal Clarity Act )

** NDP: Jack Layton announces that he would repeal the Clarity Act if elected.

A subsequent sovereignty referendum in 1995 – only narrowly lost – shook Canada to its core, and would bring about the Clarity Act.

In 1999, the government of Canada, inspired by Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and Stéphane Dion, passed Bill C-20 ( also known as the Clarity Act ), a law that, amongst other things, set out the conditions under which the federal government would enter into discussions following a vote by any province to leave Canada.

His next book, Moments of Clarity: Voices from the Front Lines of Addiction and Recovery, released in 2009, is a moving series of essays by public figures, athletes and entertainers who have struggled with addiction to drugs and alcohol, and about the very moment they realized that their addiction had taken over their life, and that that was about to change, and that they would stop using drugs, including booze.

Plamondon strongly opposed the Clarity Act legislation introduced by intergovernmental affairs minister Stéphane Dion in 1999, arguing that it would create confusion in any future referendum on Quebec sovereignty.

Popularized by William J. Bennett's Why We Fight: Moral Clarity and the War on Terrorism, the phrase was first used in its current context during the 1980s, in reference to the politics of Ronald Reagan.

Walsch's entry purported to tell the tale of a miraculous appearance of the words " Christ Was Love " during the rehearsal of his son's school Christmas pageant ; but his article was almost identical to an article published 10 years previously by Candy Chand in the spiritual magazine Clarity and spread over the internet in places such as the Heartwarmers website, down to the name of the son mentioned in both articles, Nicholas-as both authors have a son named Nicholas.

At 7: 44, it is the band's second longest song, the first being " Goodbye Sky Harbor ", the closing track on Clarity ( 16: 15 ).

** NDP: In a speech to his supporters in Winnipeg, NDP parliamentary leader Bill Blaikie speaks out in opposition to Jack Layton's proposal to repeal the Clarity Bill.

Kly and D. Kly, In pursuit of The Right to Self-determination, Collected Papers & Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Right to Self-Determination & the United Nations, Geneva 2000, G E N E V A 2000, preface by Richard Falk, Clarity Press, 2001.

* The IBM Institute for Business Value concluded from their study " Automotive 2020: Clarity Beyond the Chaos " that all automobiles will have some level of hybridization by 2020.

The Acmeist mood was first announced by Mikhail Kuzmin in his 1910 essay " Concerning Beautiful Clarity ".

Since the sale to the Clarity Media Group, the Standard has increased its paid circulation by 39 percent between its June 2009 and June 2010 BPA statements.

Disagreements among the Militant faction led it to shatter into three rival groups, a Right Wing headed by Jack Altman, a Center group called " Clarity " headed by Herbert Zam and Gus Tyler, and a Trotskyist revolutionary Left Wing faction called the " Appeal " group after the name of their factional newspaper.

* Clarity ( Article One album ), a 2010 album by Canadian Christian rock band Article One

* Clarity ( song ), a 2003 song by John Mayer

* Style: Toward Clarity and Grace, a 1990 writing guide by Joseph M. Williams

In the 2011 novel Donations to Clarity by Noah Baird ( Published by Second Wind Publishing ), one of the main characters — the town's sheriff — is an Elvis impersonator.

Following the adoption of the Clarity Act by the federal government, the Quebec provincial government adopted its own law An Act respecting the exercise of the fundamental rights and prerogatives of the Québec people and the Québec State, This provincial act was inspired by the same decision of the Supreme Court of Canada that the federal one was.