Constitutional conference coverage. It shows: scrum by Richard Hatfield before the session begins, commenting on his concept of Canada and support of the public; scrum with Brian Peckford about making concessions and his opposition to partial solutions to big problems; scrum with Allan Blakeney about the conduct of the conference doing credit to the process; comments by Bill Bennett and Angus MacLean that it has been a good week for the people of Canada to find out more about the spirit of the negotiations; comment by Sterling Lyon; the opening of the session by Pierre Elliott Trudeau as chair; concluding statements by Bill Davis and René Lévesque.~Davis states that the results have been disappointing but it has not been a waste of time, the issues are more clearly understood, disagreement among the provinces, the need for greater effort, individual interests must be tempered by the national interest; conciliation as the Canadian way, the we-you syndrome, the Senate, Ontario benefitting immensely from Canadian unity, his understanding of the concerns of the other premiers, the self-destructive myth that 10 premiers can build by themselves, Ontario’s opposition to the right of self-determination, his view that you do not build a nation with escape hatches, the preamble and the vision of a country, Canada as more than the product of 11 governments, the importance of tolerance, and the importance of patriating the constitution with an amending formula.~Lévesque speaks about the failure of the conference if there is no change in federal attitudes, the referendum, patriation, the promises made to Quebec for constitutional reform, the agreement among the provinces for more control over their resources, the importance of provincial powers over communications, the amending formula, the Charter of Rights, Quebec’s insistence on retaining control of its education system, the rights of the Francophone minority outside Quebec, Quebec’s effort to work in good faith to seek agrement, Trudeau’s remarks about two visions of Canada, Lévesque’s view that this is really about two visions of federalism, Trudeau’s view of a centralist federal government that is authoritarian, the result of almost constant tension, alienation and bitterness among various provinces because of Trudeau’s view of federalism, complementary federalism, his having come to the conference with a spirit of cooperation and hope, his disappointment that promises the federal government made during the Quebec referendum are not being respected, and unilateral patriation.