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The Road to Patriation

Item number (ISN):

44937

Series title:

Quarterly Report

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1982-03-29

Item number (ISN):

44937

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: VIDEOTAPE RECYCLING

Accession:

1987-0152

Media:

Video

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1982-03-29

Release date:

1982-04-14

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
National Film Board of Canada

Production credit:

director/scenario, Robert Duncan; assistant director/researcher, Colin Strayer; Françoise McNeil; Lani Selick (Canada); Salley Turner Jenkins (England); producer, Robert Duncan; Jennifer Torrance; executive producer, Ray Hazzan; George Johnson; photography, Ron Orieux; Mike Coles; Bill Casey; Nigel Reed; Richard Muller; Bonnie Andrukaitis; Claude Benoit; editing, Fred Hillier; Shelley Hamer; sound, Chris Moore; Jacques Drouin; James MacCarthy; sound editing, Shelley Hamer; Jackie Newell; Diane Normandeau; Norm Bigras; Bernard Bordeleau; narrator, Bill Dobson

Description:

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The Struggle to 'patriate' the Canadian constitution is the subject of this special program focusing on the final round of federal-provincial negotiations that led to the Constitution Act of 1982. Footage of the four day conference held 2-5 November 1981 at Ottawa's Conference Centre is supplemented by interviews, archival footage and Bill Dobson's narrative.~Shots of Vimy Ridge, France, in 1914; the 1926 Imperial Conference; William Lyon MacKenzie King as Prime Minister in 1927; R.B. Bennett as Prime Minister in 1931; and Louis St. Laurent as Prime Minister in 1948 provide historical background.~Commentary by Dobson includes: the history of the British North America Act of 1867; a half-century of failed efforts to achieve constitutional reform in Canada; recent attempts, including the unsuccessful First Ministers' Conference in September of 1981; court action by several provinces following Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau's announcement that Ottawa would take unilateral action to obtain Great Britain's approval of the constitutional package; the effect of Quebec Premier René Lévesque's Referendum on Sovereignty-Association in May 1980 on patriation efforts; Minister of Justice Jean Chrétien as the key figure in the lobby against separate sovereignty for Quebec and the lobby for Trudeau's Constitution; and Trudeau's demand for more centralized federal power.~Interviews include: Charles Lynch, veteran columnist in Ottawa; Sir Anthony Kershaw, whose Committee on Foreign Affairs cautioned the British government against approving the Canadian constitutional package; and Jean Casselman Wadds, Canada's High Commissioner in Britain.~Footage of events prior to the conference includes: the Constitution document being prepared in the Department of Justice; a heated debate in the House of Common's over Trudeau's timetable; comments by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; Chrétien addressing the Canada Club in London, Great Britain; Sir John Ford, British High Commissioner to Canada, defending charges that he had overstepped diplomacy; federal and provincial lobbying on the constitution in London; street demonstrations; a major lobby by women's groups; Chief Wayne Christian of the Shuswap Indians confronting Trudeau; and the 28 September 1981 decision by Chief Justice Bora Laskin and the Supreme Court of Canada that Ottawa was legally allowed to seek direct approval of the Constitution from Britain but required by 'convention' to seek a consensus from the provinces.~Events shown during the conference include: shots of Trudeau opening the conference; Lévesque and other premiers in "the gang of eight" initially opposed to Trudeau: Alberta's Peter Lougheed, Manitoba's Sterling Lyon, Saskatchewan's Allan Blakeney; Nova Scotia's John Buchanan, P.E.I.'s Angus MacLean, B.C.'s William Bennett and Newfoundland's Brian Peckford; supporters of the federal package, Ontario Premier William Davis and New Brunswick Premier Richard Hatfield; attorney-general Roy McMurtry of Ontario and Roy Romanow of Saskatchewan with Chrétien, cooking up compromises in the kitchen of the Conference Centre; a press conference with Peckford, credited with producing the successful compromise; and a Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and Trudeau announcing the new constitution, a Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and including a Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and an amending formula.~Events following the conference include: Lévesque, who refused to sign the accord, claiming he was betrayed by the compromise; Chrétien in the House of Commons announcing amendments to equality clauses and agreeing to enshrine aboriginal rights; an Address to the British Parliament by Governor General Jeanne Sauvé and Trudeau at Rideau Hall; and [Esmund Butler] and Jean Casselman Wadds delivering the request for approval on the Constitution to Buckingham Palace on December 10, 1981. <90mn>

Language:

English

Original number:

61-2-2102-0000

Notes:

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1. This is a CBC-National Film Board Co-Production.~2. There is no indication on screen that the program is part of the series "Quarterly Report".

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

46623

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8703-0048

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

742064

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4_8703-0053.MXF

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V4 8703-0053

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

742065

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4_8703-0053.MP4

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V4 8703-0053

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8703-0048

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD547

Restrictions on consultation:

Available Onsite Only / Seulement disponible sur le site

Reproduction access:

With written permission of Donor / Avec la permission écrite du donateur

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