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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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Quebec had come aboard, but the new Constitution Act, known as the Meech Lake accord, had to be ratified by the Parliament of Canada and all 10 provincial legislatures within three years.
The premiers emerged early the next morning, clutching the "Meech Lake Accord," a package of constitutional amendments designed to satisfy Quebec.
Note the similarites and differences between this proposal and the ones suggested by Meech Lake and the Charlottetown Accord.
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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Bourassa, true to form, will wind up repudiating the Meech Lake accord, because Quebec will still not have gotten enough.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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As Quebec felt betrayed by the failure of the Meech Lake accord, so aboriginal peoples felt betrayed by the constitutional process.
Although they did not kill it, Canada's aboriginal peoples opposed the Meech Lake accord.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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He broke with his old friend when the Meech Lake Accord failed, declaring that since Quebec had negotiated the Accord on its knees, it would soon find itself reduced to negotiating on its stomach.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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As the Meech Lake constitutional accord was unraveling in early 1990, Bouchard announced that he was resigning his cabinet post and leaving the Conservatives to set up his own separatist party.
And because the Meech Lake accord states in the same breath that "Quebec constitutes, within Canada, a distinct society" and that "the role of the legislature and government to preserve and promote (this) distinct society.
It was to address this issue of legitimacy and to ensure that Quebec once again became an active partner in pursuing Canada's constitutional evolution that the Meech Lake Accord was negotiated.
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