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"Following the defeat of the Meech Lake Accord, the future of Canada's constitution appears uncertain, and it is clear that hard constitutional choices lie ahead. In this volume of essays and commentaries, leading authorities and constitutional experts examine the dilemmas now confronting Canadians, and pose difficult questions that must be answered before national reconciliation can ocur.

After Meech Lake: Lessons for the Future provides thoughtful analyses of the recent history of constitutional discord in Canada up to 1990. It contains discussions of: the 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the constitution, the role of the media, language and culture, regional differences, theories of representation, and many other issues affecting constitutional reform. The book looks at the decade of reform that began in 1980 and at a host of controversial subjects that remain to be addressed in the 1990s, including the challenges from Canada's aboriginal peoples and women, the future of executive federalism, and the value of such mechanisms of popular sovereignty as constituent assembly and referenda.

After Meech Lake is a richly diverse debate on the very essence of our country. For anyone interested in the future of the Canadian federation and its constitution, this is the essential primer."--Back cover. 

261 pages ; 23 cm. 

Contents:
The charter, interest groups, executive federalism, and constitutional reform / Alan C. Cairns --
Forever amber / Thomas J. Courchene --
Representation and constitutional reform in Canada / Jennifer Smith --
Constitution and regional cleavages: A view from Québec / Edmond Orban --
Interpreting the political heritage of André Laurendeau / Guy Laforest --
Charter influences on future constitutional reform / W.R. Lederman --
The charter and the crisis in Canada / Robert Martin --
Mirror? Searchlight? Interloper?: The media and Meech / John Meisel --
How television transformed the Meech Lake negotiations / David Taras --
Canadian broadcasting, Canadian nationhood: Two concepts, two solitudes, and great expectations / Marc Raboy --
After Meech Lake: The Ms/representation of gender in scholarly spaces / Beverley Baines --
Aboriginal peoples and the constitution / Ovide Mercredi --
What future for Canada? / Gordon Robertson --
The future of Canada's constitutional reform process / John D. Whyte --
After Meech Lake / Ian Scott.