Word: meech
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Twelve years ago, 60% rejected a similar proposition. Then came the Meech Lake Accord, which would have given Quebec a measure of autonomy. But that was rejected by English-speaking Canada. What has gone on emotionally within the minds of Quebecois to make a majority say yes today when they said no a decade...
...Anger at being despised during the Meech episode. A little shame at being frightened in the past by simpleminded arguments -- old age pensions won't be paid and that sort of thing. Anger at seeing Ontarians wiping their feet on the Quebec flag...
...After so many efforts, including Meech Lake, all they're doing is tinkering with more of this, more of that. It's byzantine, absolutely byzantine...
...Prime Minister Brian Mulroney offered a constitutional-reform package known as the Meech Lake Accord. For Quebec its guarantees of a "distinct society" were a bare minimum, but for many in English Canada they went too far. When Meech Lake was not adopted, Quebec scheduled a referendum on its future for October of this year. The federal government is working on a new batch of compromises, which should be ready for national discussion in April. Beyond this hurdle is the next general election, which must be held no later than 1993, and which may see Canadian politics fragmented into five...
...same claims were made about Meech Lake, the plan for constitutional reforms supported by Quebec but defeated when two English-speaking provinces rejected its special provisions for the French seven months ago. That caused many observers to fear the breakup of Canada. This time Quebec demands even greater autonomy in its affairs, claiming exclusive responsibility for agriculture, environment, energy, communications, commerce and "public security" as well as a larger role in Canadian foreign affairs and tax policy. Said Bourassa: "We want a fundamental change, not cosmetic change, in the structure of the country...