The Meech Lake primer : conflicting views of the 1987 Constitutional Accord / edited by Michael D. Behiels ; with a foreword by Eugene Forsey.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Other Authors: Behiels, Michael D. (Michael Derek), 1946-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, ©1989.
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Table of Contents:
  • The constitutional politics of national reconciliation / Lowell Murray
  • Quebec's quest for survival and equality via the Meech Lake Accord / Gil Rémillard
  • The constitution as an expression of ideological pluralism and accommodation / Ian Scott
  • Who speaks for Canada? / Pierre Elliott Trudeau
  • Citizens and their charter / Alan C. Cairns
  • Political pragmatism takes precedence over democratic process / Richard Simeon
  • Alice in Meachland or The concept of Quebec as "a distinct society" / Ramsay Cook
  • "Meech Lake" and Quebec society / Stephen Allan Scott
  • A critique of the distinct society clause's critics / José Woehrling
  • The accord abandons Canada's battered and defenceless minorities / Georges Arès
  • A minority plea for the supremacy of the charter / Alliance Quebec
  • The Meech Lake Accord and the spending power proposals / Deborah Coyne
  • Section 106A and federal-provincial fiscal relations / Stefan Dupré
  • Are women's rights threatened by the distinct society clause? / Fédération des Femmes du Québec
  • The constitution, the charter and the distinct society clause / Mary Eberts.