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Meech Lake Accord

British

/ miːtʃ /

noun

the agreement reached in 1987 at Meech Lake, Quebec, at a Canadian federal-provincial conference that accepted Quebec's conditions for signing the Constitution Act of 1982. The Accord lapsed when the legislatures of two provinces, Newfoundland and Quebec, failed to ratify it by the deadline of June 23, 1990

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Then came the Meech Lake Accord, which would have given Quebec a measure of autonomy.

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In 1987 Prime Minister Brian Mulroney offered a constitutional-reform package known as the Meech Lake Accord.

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