This particular Act made Canada a fully sovereign state. ... Political debates have occurred between Canada and the provinces for hundreds of years. ... 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). ... The general method required the consent of the Senate and House of Commons and of the legislatures of two-thirds of the provinces, provided those comprised fifty percent of the population of Canada (Cairns 1991). ...

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United, most of the time, in their beliefs, they helped Canada reach some of their most significant milestones in the 1970's and 1980's. Together, they changed Canada in ways people thought could never happen. ... The Charter stipulated the fundamental freedoms and rights that all Canadian citizens have (Internet 13). ... The Constitutional Act had been widely accepted in much of English-speaking Canada, but that was not the case in Québec. ... A survey released October 30, 2003 by Opinion Canada (a CRIC division) reveals that Canadians want the Constitution left alone f...

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