This particular Act made Canada a fully sovereign state. ... Political debates have occurred between Canada and the provinces for hundreds of years. ... Since the early 1960s successive governments have argued that their province needed additional constitutional powers to protect its language and culture (Cairns 1991). ... Immediately following the vote, Prime Minister Pierra Trudeau announced that, either with or without provincial support, he intended to make the Canadian Parliament solely responsible for Canada's constitution (Cairns 1991). ... At the same time it recognized the anglop...

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