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Refused to consider a resolution congratulating Yale on its victory over Harvard in The Game. Introduced by Vellucci. charter-righted by Kevin Crane '71, the order gave special praise to A. Bartlett Giamatti, president of Yale, and defensive start Fred Leone, both of Italian descent...
There was the rub. Trudeau wanted the British to write into the constitution a charter of rights that the premiers feared would impinge upon their present autonomy, which allows them, for instance, to limit the hiring of people who move into their provinces from other areas. Trudeau also wanted the British to add a provision to the act that would limit the rights of the provinces to block constitutional amendments...
Trudeau persuaded nine premiers to accept a charter of rights. But to get an agreement he had to surrender on several points, including the process for amending the constitution. Under the formula, any amendment would have to be approved by at least seven provinces with 50% of the country's population. But any province objecting to an amendment could simply refuse to observe the change...
Levesque rejected Trudeau's compromise because of his bitter opposition to a point in the charter of rights that Trudeau considers basic: the right of English-and French-speaking minorities in provinces dominated by the other language to be educated in their mother tongue. Lévesque's government has been passing legislation restricting the use of English in commerce as well as education...
Quebec's opposition will not stop the Canadian Parliament from calling upon the British Parliament to transfer the B. N. A. Act, complete with the new amending formula and charter of rights, to Ottawa. No real trouble is expected in London now that Trudeau has satisfied the concerns of the Canadian Supreme Court. Still, the compromise left Lévesque, whose Parti Quebecois favors independence for the French-speaking province, disquietingly isolated and the course of his future actions in doubt. "Quebec finds itself alone," he declared. "It will be up to the Quebec people to draw their conclusions...