Political Science 2230E Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Brian Mulroney, Canadian Nationalism, Clarity Act

• School: Western University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: Political Science 2230E
• Professor: Christopher Alcantra

Document Summary

1980 referendum: 40% say yes to independence and 60% say no to independence, quebec separatism is dead. Quebec provincial jurisdiction and power within the federal institutions: they sign the accord but the public did not like the accord women, meech lake accord: negotiating a package of reforms that would benefit. Indigenous people, etc. (they wondered where their special rights were: provinces backed out of the accord and it failed. 1984: trudeau retires and brian mulroney gets elected. Trudeau said to the supreme court that we do not need quebec we just need. Charlottetown accord: attempt to please everybody a lot of the same elements of. Meech lake but also new parts that could benefit the provinces/groups that once opposed the accord (women, indigenous people, etc. : hard-core charter canadians and extreme quebec nationalists were not pleased, the accord failed. Post referendum: clarity act: conditions/rules if this happens again, allowed quebec to do things differently by non-constitutional means which.