1979 May 23 - 1980 Nov 6
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/143
Canada (UK/Canadian relations: patriation of the Canadian constitution) (Part 1)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2010 Dec 30 |
| Classification: | Confidential |
| Page count: | 248 |
| Any docs withheld? | 1 |
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Showing items 41 - 57 of 57
| Date | Value | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 81 Mar 5 Th | Major | Canada: Kirby minute for Trudeau (“Renvoi à la Cour d’appel du Québec sur le projet de résolution”) [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Mar 11 We | Major | Canada: Garneau minute for Kirby (“Constitution Debate”) [options for ending it by closure, with Kirby memo attached] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Apr 3 Fr | Major | 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] |
| 81 Apr 6 Mo | Major | Canada: Kirby minute for Trudeau (“Assessment of the Government’s Current Constitutional Position”) [decisive role of the Supreme Court - strategize accordingly] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Apr 13 Mo | Major | Canada: Ezrin minute for Kirby (“Constitutional Communications Activities - London”) [countering the campaign by the provinces] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Apr 14 Tu | Major | Canada: Fred Gibson minute for Kirby (“The Constitutional Resolution: The London Scene”) [need for speed; likely campaign by the provinces] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Apr 14 Tu | Major | Canada: Kirby minute for Trudeau (“Your meeting with Mrs Jean Wadds [Canadian High Commissioner to London]”) [battle in London “still very important”] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Apr 23 Th | Major | 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] |
| 81 Apr 28 Tu | Major | 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] |
| 81 Apr 29 We | Major | 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] |
| 81 May 6 We | Major | 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] |
| 81 May 25 Mo | Major | Canada: Hurley minute for Cameron (“Strategic planning and the constitution”) [fitting it into broader federal-provincial relations strategy] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 May 29 Fr | Major | Canada: Kirby minute for Trudeau (“The Constitution”) [issues following Supreme Court decision] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Jun 16 Tu | Major | 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] |
| 81 Jun 17 We | Major | Canada: ?Kirby minute (“Comments on Quebec Document entitled Background Brief No.6”) [“in many places borders on dishonesty”] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Jun 22 Mo | Major | 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] |
| 81 Jun 29 Mo | Major | 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] |