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PDF 80 Jun 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Carrington PS letter to Michael Alexander ("Prime Minister's Meeting with Mr Trudeau: 25 June") [patriation of Canadian constitution, air talks, defence, Zimbabwe] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 80 Jun 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: No. 10 record of conversation (MT-Trudeau) [US extra-territorial legislation, crisis management, Canadian constitution, air talks, defence, Zimbabwe] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 80 Jun 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Trudeau) [Canadian constitution, Summit declarations, east-west relations, Central America] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 80 Sep 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (FCO) Canada: FCO letter to No.10 (“Canadian emissary”) [Trudeau wants to send emissary to explain patriation proposals] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Oct 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (FCO) Canada: FCO briefing for MT (meeting with Canadian emissaries) [Canadian patriation plan] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Nov 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Attorney-General’s opinion (“Patriation of the Canadian Constitution”) [doubts about proceeding while legal challenge pending in Canada] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jan 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Canadian PM) Canada: Department of External Affairs telegram to all posts (“Questions & Answers on Patriation”) [“summary of situation”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Jan 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Canada: Ian Gow minute to Michael Jopling (“Canadian Constitution - Robin Maxwell-Hyslop”) [patriation of the constitution] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Jan 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Canada: Ian Gow minute to Ian Gilmour (patriation of the constitution) [legislative process] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Feb 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Canadian PM) Canada: Kirby minute for Trudeau (“Strategic Questions Relating to the Constitution”) [short-term stance/image & summary of work being done by officials] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Feb 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Canadian PM) Canada: Robert Fowler briefing for Trudeau (“Patriation, the UK: Notes for Question Period (update)”) [MT assuring Trudeau HMG would apply the whip to patriation legislation] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Feb 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Canada: Ian Gow minute to Tony Marlow (patriation of constitution) [Trudeau “emphasised the dire consequences which would follow if H.M.G. did not do as he wants”] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Feb 9 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Canadian PM) Canada: Michael Pitfield to Sir Philip Moore (postponed visit) [apologies] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Feb 10 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Canadian PM) Canada: Russell Anthony to Michael Kirby (“The Canadian Constitution”) [opinion in the west, especially BC] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Feb 11 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Canadian PM) Canada: David R. Cameron minute to Michael Kirby (“The Constitutional Resolution”) [“Observations from a Slight Distance and Thoughts on Government Tactics”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Feb 11 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Canadian PM) Canada: Kirby minute for Trudeau (“Issues relating to the constitutional resolution”) [London strategy] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Feb 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Canadian PM) Canada: Kirby minute for Trudeau (meeting of the six provincial Premiers) [they think they have the federal government on the ropes] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Feb 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Canadian PM) Canada: Kirby minute for Trudeau (government options on eve of constitutional resolution debate) [“think piece”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Feb 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Canadian PM) Canada: Kirby minute for Trudeau (“Follow Up to Last Week’s Memorandum on Constitutional Options”) [update from events] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Mar 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Canadian PM) Canada: Kirby minute for Trudeau (draft response to Kershaw report) [cover note only] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Mar 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Canadian PM) Canada: Canadian High Commission in London memorandum (“The mood in London”) [put on “maximum of pressure” to pass bill without delay] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Mar 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Canadian PM) Canada: Kirby minute for Trudeau (“Elements of a London Strategy”) [aim to pass bill through Westminster by July] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Mar 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Canadian PM) Canada: Kirby minute for Trudeau (“Renvoi à la Cour d’appel du Québec sur le projet de résolution”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Mar 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Canadian PM) Canada: Garneau minute for Kirby (“Constitution Debate”) [options for ending it by closure, with Kirby memo attached] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Apr 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Canadian PM) Canada: Kirby memorandum for Pitfield (“The Release of the UK Government’s Constitutional White Paper”) [to our advantage to press British Government to release very soon] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Apr 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Canadian PM) Canada: Kirby minute for Trudeau (“Assessment of the Government’s Current Constitutional Position”) [decisive role of the Supreme Court - strategize accordingly] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Apr 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Canadian PM) Canada: Ezrin minute for Kirby (“Constitutional Communications Activities - London”) [countering the campaign by the provinces] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Apr 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Canadian PM) Canada: Fred Gibson minute for Kirby (“The Constitutional Resolution: The London Scene”) [need for speed; likely campaign by the provinces] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Apr 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Canadian PM) Canada: Kirby minute for Trudeau (“Your meeting with Mrs Jean Wadds [Canadian High Commissioner to London]”) [battle in London “still very important”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Apr 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Canadian PM) Canada: Kirby minute for Trudeau (“Constitutional Activities in London”) [Trudeau: “This is ok until the Supreme Court decision”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Apr 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Canadian PM) Canada: de Montigny Marchand minute for Pitfield (“Possible pre-summit meeting of the Prime Minister with Mrs Thatcher”) [Pitfield has doubts; External Affairs makes case for a meeting] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Apr 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Canadian PM) Canada: Kirby minute for Pitfield (“The Prime Minister’s Proposed Meeting with Mrs Thatcher”) [continues to think it would be a mistake prior to Supreme Court deciding] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Apr 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Canadian PM) Canada: de Montigny Marchand minute for MacGuigan (“Your meeting with Carrington in Rome”) [case for a meeting as an alternative to Trudeau meeting MT] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Apr 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: UK High Commissioner despatch to FCO (“Trudeau’s constituional drama: the first four acts”) [“Mr Trudeau has bestridden the stage like a colossus …a veritable attempt at a coup d’etat to change the balance of power in the Federation”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 May 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Canadian PM) Canada: Kirby minute for Trudeau (“The Constitution - the London Perspective”) [Trudeau: “I would still plan for July 1st … early August is less than ideal”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 May 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Canadian PM) Canada: Hurley minute for Cameron (“Strategic planning and the constitution”) [fitting it into broader federal-provincial relations strategy] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 May 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Canadian PM) Canada: Kirby minute for Trudeau (“The Constitution”) [issues following Supreme Court decision] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Jun 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Canadian PM) Canada: ?Kirby briefing for Trudeau (“Your meeting with Lord Moran, Tuesday 16 June 1981 at 15H10”; also note of meeting) [no problems with the British if Supreme Court rules favourably] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Jun 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Canadian PM) Canada: ?Kirby minute (“Comments on Quebec Document entitled Background Brief No.6”) [“in many places borders on dishonesty”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Jun 22 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Carrington PS letter to Cabinet Office ("Visit by Mr Trudeau") [arrangements, possible discussion of Canadian constitution] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 81 Jun 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Canadian PM) Canada: Kirby minute for Trudeau (“Patriation: The Situation in London”) [HMG has decided its best interests as well as Canada’s served by earliest possible action] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Jun 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit of Mr Trudeau: Meeting with the Prime Minister and Working Lunch: 26 June 1981") [Canadian constitution, commercial interests in Canada] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 81 Jun 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Armstrong-Candian High Commissioner) [likely main themes at upcoming Ottawa economic summit; patriation] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 81 Jun 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Foreign Office briefing ("Canadian Prime Minister's talk/lunch with Mrs Thatcher") [Supreme Court ruling on patriation of Candian constitution] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 81 Jun 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Trudeau) [patriation of Canadian constitution] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 81 Jun 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Trudeau) [Trudeau's visits to Europe, Ottawa economic summit, Canadian domestic issues] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 81 Jun 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Canadian PM) Canada: Kirby minute for Trudeau (“The significance of the return of the Chief Justice to Ottawa from July 5 to July 8”) [Registrar of Supreme Court says decision not likely till after 17 Aug] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Oct 26 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: No.10 letter to FCO (“Cancun - the Canadian Constitution”) [not raised by Trudeau with MT at Cancun] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Oct 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: UK High Commission to FCO (“Constitution”) [what to do if patriation bill rejected by UK Parliament] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Oct 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: UK High Commission to FCO (“Constitution”) [possible rejection of patriation bill by UK Parliament] [declassified 2013]

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