7. Canada on a Collision Course

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Preface xiii
5. 1. 23 June 1990: A Day of Reckoning? 1
6. 2. The Inheritance of 1982 14
7. 3. The Genie Is Let Out of the Bottle 38
8. 4. The Making of the Meech Lake Accord 63
9. 5. A Marathon at Langevin 101
10. 6. Unravelling a Seamless Web 137
11. 7. Canada on a Collision Course 170
12. 8. This Dinner Has Seven Days 198
13. 9. Why Did Meech Lake Fail? 238
14. 10. The Way Ahead 260
15. APPENDIX 1. Constitutional Chronology 1985-90 289
16. APPENDIX 2. The Meech Lake Communique, 30 April 1987 294
17. APPENDIX 3. The 1987 Constitutional Accord 297
18. APPENDIX 4. 1990 Constitutional Agreement 306
19. A Note on Sources 315
20. Notes 317
21. Index 335