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The Quebec Resolutions, also known as the seventy-two resolutions, are a group of statements written at the Quebec Conference of 1864 which laid out the framework for the Canadian Constitution. They were adopted by the majority of the provinces of British North America , and became the basis for the London Conference of 1866 .
Report of The Pépin Robarts Commission - Task Force on Canadian Unity (1978) Sovereignty-Association Act (1980) Canada Act 1982 (1982) Meech Lake Accord (1989) Beaudoin-Edwards committee report (June 20, 1991) Report of the Bélanger-Campeau Commission on the Political and Constitutional Future of Québec (March 27, 1991) Allaire Report ...
In 1967, on the initiative of Premier John Robarts of Ontario, a provincial first ministers' conference was held in Toronto to discuss the Canadian confederation of the future. From this, a first round of what would become annual constitutional meetings of all provincial premiers and the prime minister of Canada, was held in February 1968.
The Constitution of Canada is a large number of documents that have been entrenched in the constitution by various means. Regardless of how documents became entrenched, together those documents form the supreme law of Canada; no non-constitutional law may conflict with them, and none of them may be changed without following the amending formula given in Part V of the Constitution Act, 1982.
Canadian Confederation (French: Confédération canadienne) was the process by which three British North American provinces—the Province of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick—were united into one federation, called the Dominion of Canada, on July 1, 1867.
[6] [7] In 1982 the Act was brought under full Canadian control through the Patriation of the Constitution, and was renamed the Constitution Act, 1867. [2] [6] Since Patriation, the Act can only be amended in Canada, under the amending formula set out in the Constitution Act, 1982. [8] [9] [10]
The London Conference was held in London, in the United Kingdom, in 1866.It was the third and final in a series of conferences that led to Canadian Confederation in 1867. . Sixteen delegates from the Province of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick gathered to set out the final outline of the proposed Canadian Confederation, resulting in the British North America Act, 1867 (now the ...
The Quebec Conference was held from October 10 to 24, 1864, to discuss a proposed Canadian confederation. [1] It was in response to the shift in political ground when the United Kingdom and the United States had come very close to engaging in war with each other. [2]