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After 115 years, Ottawa gets its own constitution
With Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau at her side and 30,000 rain-soaked Canadians looking on, Queen Elizabeth II stood on a huge wooden platform outside the massive limestone buildings atop Ottawa's Parliament Hill. Though the Queen had visited Canada ten times before, this trip was unlike any other. She had left her country as it stood on the-brink of war in the South Atlantic. And her purpose was to preside over a ceremony in which Britain relinquished an arcane but important vestige of its control over the onetime colony. As the Queen signed the proclamation...
...governing Canada's federal system, the British North America (B.N.A.) Act of 1867. Although Canadians have enjoyed self-rule since then, the Act was retained by the British Parliament because Canadians could not agree on a formula for amending it. The British have routinely passed amendments adopted in Ottawa, but the necessity of going to Westminster has long rankled Canadians...
...glasses, and so forth)-as if the presence of Latin and the imprint of a name were so formidable as to reverse a motor reflex. It never works. One might try slipping false jackets on one's books-a cover for The Secret Agent disguising Utility Rates in Ottawa: A Woman's View. But book borrowers are merely despicable, not stupid; they tend to leaf before they pluck. Besides, the interesting thing about the feeling of loss when a book is borrowed is that the book's quality rarely matters. So mysterious is the power of books...
This erosion affected not only adversaries; it blighted as well relations with our friends. In August, Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore, interrupted a meeting of Commonwealth leaders in Ottawa to fly to New York for a meeting with me at Kennedy Airport. His sole purpose was to judge the impact of Watergate on U.S. foreign policy...