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...Meech Lake To The Contrary Notwithstanding (Part Ii), Roderick A. Macdonald
...Meech Lake To The Contrary Notwithstanding (Part Ii), Roderick A. Macdonald
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
In this essay, which has been published in two parts, the author argues that the Meech Lake Accord was more than a hastily cobbled together political deal between the Prime Minister and ten provincial premiers. Despite the unattractive process by which the Meech Lake Accord was struck, and especially defended, despite the disingenuous character of the arguments most often advanced for its adoption, and despite its close connection with other aspects of the federal government's political agenda which many Canadians found suspicious, the Meech Lake Accord did respond to an important issue in post-patriation constitutionalism. A review of Canadian constitutional …
...Meech Lake To The Contrary Notwithstanding (Part I), Roderick A. Macdonald
...Meech Lake To The Contrary Notwithstanding (Part I), Roderick A. Macdonald
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
In this essay, which will be published in two parts, the author argues that the Meech Lake Accord was more than a hastily cobbled together political deal between the Prime Minister and ten provincial premiers. Despite the unattractive process by which the Meech Lake Accord was struck, and especially defended, despite the disingenuous character of the arguments most often advanced for its adoption, and despite its close connection with other aspects of the federal government's political agenda which many Canadians found suspicious, the Meech Lake Accord did respond to an important issue in post-patriation constitutionalism. A review of Canadian constitutional …