Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1992
Abstract
Canada's federation always has been tentative. This motley collection of French and English speakers, multiculturals and Native peoples, extended across a narrow ribbon of land just above the border with the United States, seems eternally fated to endure tension and uncertainty concerning its national identity and political institutions. This uncertainty may now have reached its highest point in Canada's history. The 1990 failure of the Meech Lake constitutional accord, which was intended to bring Quebec voluntarily into Canada's 1982 constitution, has inspired an unprecedented quest for new constitutional provisions acceptable to Canadians throughout the country. 1 In this paper I make a necessarily tentative effort to consider the interests and involvement of one of Canada's regions, the Prairie Provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, at the present stage of the ongoing constitutional reform process
Comments
Published in GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY 12:3 (Summer 1992). Copyright © 1992 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.