* Meech Lake Accord, 1987

This led to several historic misunderstandings, such as in Canada, the failing of the Meech Lake Accord where Quebec constitutional requests were interpreted as demands.

Trudeau wrote and spoke out against both the Meech Lake Accord and Charlottetown Accord proposals to amend the Canadian constitution, arguing that they would weaken federalism and the Charter of Rights if implemented.

* After the collapse of the Meech Lake constitutional accord in 1990, the province of Quebec in Canada experienced a rekindled wave of separatism by francophone Québécois nationalists, who sought for Quebec to become an independent country.

** Newfoundland Premier Clyde Wells confirms he will rescind Newfoundland's approval of the Meech Lake Accord.

* June 23 – In Canada, the Meech Lake Accord dies after the Manitoba and Newfoundland legislatures fail to approve it ahead of the deadline.

* April 30 – Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and the Provincial Premiers agree on principle to the Meech Lake Accord which would bring Quebec into the constitution.

The Bloc Québécois formed in 1990 as an informal coalition of Progressive Conservative and Liberal Members of Parliament from Quebec, who left their original parties around the time of the defeat of the Meech Lake Accord.

Bouchard abandoned the government in May 1990 in response to the report of a commission headed by Jean Charest that suggested changes to the Meech Lake Accord.

His tenure as Prime Minister was marked by the introduction of major economic reforms, such as the Canada-U. S. Free Trade Agreement and the Goods and Services Tax, and the rejection of constitutional reforms such as the Meech Lake Accord and the Charlottetown Accord.

In 1987, he negotiated the Meech Lake Accord with the provincial premiers, a package of constitutional amendments designed to satisfy Quebec's demand for recognition as a " distinct society " within Canada, and to devolve some powers to the provinces.

The Meech Lake Accord also met its doom in 1990.

Another sign came after the failure of Meech Lake, when Bouchard and several other Tories broke with the party to form the Bloc Québécois, a pro-sovereigntist ( i. e. independentist ) party.

In contrast to Clark, Trudeau and Mulroney had become bitter enemies over the Meech Lake Accord, despite never having fought an election.

In her final address as vicereine, at Christmas, 1989, some of Sauvé's words were perceived as veiled warning about the failure of the Meech Lake Accord and she was criticised for this suspected breach of neutrality.

" Sauvé, though, always held that she had been speaking about Canadian unity in general, and not the Meech Lake Accord in particular, or any side of the debate around it.

After the defeat of the Meech Lake Accord, which sought to amend the Constitution of Canada to resolve the passage by a previous government of the Constitution Act 1982 without Quebec's ratification, a pro-independence political party, the Bloc Québécois, was also created at the federal level.

With the failure of the Charlottetown Accord and the Meech Lake Accord, two packages of proposed amendments to the Canadian constitution, the question of Quebec's status remained unresolved, and the PQ called the 1995 Quebec referendum proposing negotiations on sovereignty.

It never fully recovered from the fragmentation of Mulroney's broad coalition in the late 1980s resulting from English Canada's failure to ratify the Meech Lake Accord.

However, Quebec's opposition to the 1982 patriation package has led to two failed attempts to amend the Constitution ( the Meech Lake Accord and Charlottetown Accord ) which were designed primarily to obtain Quebec's political approval of the Canadian constitutional order.

This resulted in the Meech Lake and Charlottetown constitutional accords.

He was a special committee member charged with examining the Meech Lake Accord in 1990, which would have given the province of Quebec the status of a " distinct society ".

The roots of this discontent lay mainly in their belief that a package of proposed constitutional amendments, called the Meech Lake Accord, failed to meet the needs of Westerners and Canadian unity overall.

Though largely a fringe party in 1987, by 1990 the party had made huge inroads in public support as support for Mulroney's PC party dropped due to the unpopular Goods and Services Tax ( GST ), high unemployment, and the failure of the Meech Lake Accord.

The party's delegates discussed a variety of topics to formulate policies such as calling for the party to endorse a Triple-E Senate amendment to added to the Meech Lake Accord, advocating the addition of property rights into the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and other issues such as " provincial resource rights, deficit reduction, free trade, economic diversification, welfare reform, and regional fairness in federal procurements.

Meech Lake ( French: Lac Meech ) is located within Gatineau Park in the Municipality of Chelsea, Quebec, Canada ( about 20 km NW of Gatineau ).

fr: Accord du lac Meech

Robin Philpot wrote a book about English Canada's use of the crisis as a political tool following the failed Meech Lake Accord: Oka: dernier alibi du Canada anglais ( 1991 ).

It is set during the Bélanger-Campeau commission ( a public hearing to determine the way to choose for Quebec regarding its autonomy ), before the Parti Libéral du Québec ( in power, traditionally in favor of autonomy within Canada and co-instigator of the Accord with the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada ) formally closed the door to independence in the light of the death of Meech Lake and the departure of some Liberal nationalists to create the ADQ.

Quebec's provincial government, then controlled by a party that advocated remaining in Canada on certain conditions ( the Parti libéral du Québec ), endorsed the accord ( called the Meech Lake Accord ).

Webberville was settled in 1837 by Ephraim Meech.

The Charlottetown Accord was even more ambitious than the Meech Lake Accord, but it failed to win support in a nationwide referendum.

There was also a perception of the party as being anti-Quebec due to its position on official bilingualism and its opposition to the Meech Lake Accord.

Tension over this issue was a contributing factor to the failure of the Meech Lake Accord.

Once it became apparent that the Meech Lake Accord would fail, Getty's government introduced the Senatorial Selection Act, which provided for an election process whenever there was a vacant Senate seat for Alberta.

However, Getty's favoured candidate, Progressive Conservative Bert Brown, was soundly defeated by Stan Waters of the upstart Reform Party of Canada, which opposed Meech Lake and favoured aggressive senate reform.

While John Turner and the Liberal leadership supported Meech, there was significant internal disagreement, with Trudeau returning from retirement to speak out against it.

The party had selected veteran politician Jean Chrétien over Paul Martin as their leader in 1990, but the leadership contest had proven to be divisive and Chrétien was unpopular, especially in his native Quebec after declaring his opposition to the Meech Lake Accord, being rocked by caucus defects.

The first was Peterson's prominent role in creating and promoting the " Meech Lake " constitutional accord.

It did not help that the provincial election campaign was being run in the aftermath of the failed Meech Lake constitutional accord of Brian Mulroney's federal government, with which Peterson had significant media exposure in association with the other first ministers.

It is often believed that the controversy over the Charter was what caused the Meech Lake Accord and Charlottetown Accord to fail.

The impetus for a federal referendum came from the many complaints about the Meech Lake process, and how many claimed it was a backdoor negotiation for the future of the country.

The accord was negotiated at a 1987 meeting between Mulroney and the provincial premiers at Willson House, Meech Lake, in the Gatineau Hills.

When the Meech Lake Accord was debated in the Quebec National Assembly, it was opposed by the Parti Québécois.

After a week of negotiations, an agreement for further rounds of constitutional negotiations was devised to follow ratification of Meech Lake.

The Charlottetown Accord, unlike Meech Lake, was put to referenda, but it was also defeated in most provinces, including Quebec.

Dumont was a former President of the Liberal Party's Youth Commission, but had a falling out with the party following the rejection of the Allaire Report proposing maximalist powers for Quebec after the collapse of the Meech Lake Accord.