Meech Lake Accord

British  

/ miːtʃ /

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

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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If the ten provinces failed by that time to ratify the delicate agreement known as the Meech Lake accord, years of effort at balancing the aspirations of French- and English-speaking Canadians would automatically fall apart -- and so, in the most pessimistic prognosis, might the country.

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The entire point of the Meech Lake accord was to bring Quebec into the reformed 1982 constitution the province had refused to sign.

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Time ran out on the so-called Meech Lake accord only two days before St. Jean- Baptiste Day, the traditional holiday of Quebec, and French Canadians made the most of the coincidence.

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