Proponents argued that the name Dominion Day was a holdover from the colonial era, an argument given some impetus by the patriation of the Canadian Constitution in 1982, and others asserted that an alternative was needed as the term does not translate well into French.

These disagreements were resolved only in time for the passage of the Canada Act of 1982, thus completing the so-called patriation of the Canadian constitution to Canada.

Therefore, this Act can at best be considered a " partial patriation " of the Canadian Constitution.

This Act was repealed in 1982 with the full patriation of the Canadian Constitution from the United Kingdom, and with the incorporation of a new, comprehensive procedure for amending the Constitution.

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.

A major focus of his second mandate was the patriation of the Canadian constitution.

During the 1981 discussions over patriation of the Canadian constitution, Attorney-General of Ontario Roy McMurtry, Chrétien and Romanow worked out the final details of Canada's new constitution, resulting in the famous late-night Kitchen Accord.

In caucus, he sided with party leader Ed Broadbent in supporting patriation of the Canadian Constitution with a Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

The holiday was actually renamed in 1982, following the patriation of the Canadian Constitution, as a result of a private member's bill in the House of Commons.

Delay in the patriation of the Canadian constitution was due in large part to the lack of agreement concerning a method for amending the constitution that would be acceptable to all of the provinces, particularly Quebec.

The 1982 patriation of the Canadian Constitution did not solve the issue in the point of view of the majority of sovereignists.

In 1982, the patriation of the Canadian constitution occurred as the British Parliament passed the Canada Act 1982.

Blakeney played an important role in the federal-provincial negotiations that led to the 1982 patriation of the Canadian constitution.

During Hatfield's long tenure, he became prominent on the national stage, allying with federal Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau during the constitutional negotiations that led to the 1982 patriation of the Canadian constitution and the creation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Though the formula officially died in 1965 when Quebec Premier Lesage withdrew his support, a modified version of this formula was finally adopted in 1982, with the enactment of the Constitution Act, 1982 and the patriation of the Canadian Constitution.

Toward the end of the 1970s, this criticism became increasingly prominent, and became particularly glaring during protests against the patriation of the Canadian Constitution.

Hence, patriation is associated with the adoption of the Canadian amending formula and the corresponding acquisition of full sovereignty.

Since the patriation of the Canadian constitution in 1982, thorough amending formulae for the constitution were adopted.

In November 1981, he played a major role in brokering the deal that achieved patriation of the Canadian Constitution and the creation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Since the Quiet Revolution, sovereignist sentiments have been stoked somewhat by the patriation of the Canadian constitution in 1982 which was introduced without the consent of the National Assembly of Quebec and by numerous failed attempts at constitutional reform, which have sought to address Quebec's " distinct society ".

The government of Quebec, in line with its policy of the duality of nations, objected to the new Canadian constitutional arrangement of 1982 ( the patriation ), because its formula for future constitutional amendments failed to give Quebec veto power over all constitutional changes.

The abortion legislation also violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms which had been entrenched in the Canadian constitution as part of the patriation process by Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau in the early 1980s.

In 1982, this Act was renamed the Constitution Act, 1867, with the patriation of the constitution ( having originally been enacted by the Parliament of the United Kingdom ).

In the lead up to the patriation of the constitution in 1982, Trudeau had, when negotiations with the provinces stalled at one point, threatened to take the case for patriation straight to the British parliament " bothering to ask one premier.

Liberal Party leader John Turner was put into a tough position, considering the popularity of the agreement in Quebec ( a traditional Liberal stronghold until Trudeau's patriation of the constitution in 1982 ; since, Quebec has not voted Liberal to such an overwhelming extent ) and the Trudeau ideal of federal power.

The court ruled ( for the first time, on live television ) that the federal government had the right, by letter of the law, to proceed with the unilateral patriation of the constitution ( the decision seven to two in favour ).

However, by a different six-to-three majority, the court said that the constitution was made up as much of convention as written law and ruled that a unilateral patriation was not in accordance with constitutional convention.

This attitude led to the role of the monarchy in Canada coming under scrutiny during constitutional conventions in the lead up to the patriation of the Canadian constitution in 1982.

With the patriation of the Constitution in 1982, this Act was renamed Constitution Act, 1867.

Even so, the patriation was achieved ; the Constitution Act, 1982 was proclaimed by Queen Elizabeth on April 17, 1982.

He was the chief negotiator of what would be called the " Kitchen Accord ", an agreement which led to the agreement of nine provinces to patriation.

Ultimately, Quebec was the only province that did not favour patriation as agreed to by the other premiers.

Colloquially, the switch to a domestic amendment procedure was known as patriation.

The word patriation was invented in Canada, as a back-formation from repatriation, which means to return to one's country.

In 1968, Pearson was succeeded by Pierre Trudeau, who also advocated patriation.

" Trudeau, in his memoirs, paraphrased the court as saying " that patriation was legal, but not nice.

This assertion of national duality was immediately followed with Resolution 177 that stated, " Quebec will never agree, under the existing system, to the patriation of the Constitution and to an amending formula as long as the whole issue of the distribution of powers has not been settled and Quebec has not been guaranteed all the powers it needs for its development.

In Canada, this was called the patriation of the Constitution.

In this school of thought, patriation without Quebec's consent was the only option.

The Fulton-Favreau formula would have achieved the patriation of the Constitution.

The formula would have achieved the patriation of the Constitution.