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1981 Mar 2 - 1981 Oct 23
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/398
Canada (UK/Canadian relations: patriation of the Canadian constitution) (Part 3)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2011 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 386
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80 Jun 27 Fr Major Canada: Government of Alberta minute (Trudeau meeting with MT) [MT finds Trudeau “neurotic and paranoid regarding patriation”] [declassified 2010]
80 Oct 9 Th Major Canada: UK High Commissioner minute (meeting with Canadian Justice Estey) [draft bill “defective in law”] [declassified 2010]
81 Mar 2 Mo Major Canada: FCO letter to No.10 ("Broadcasts in French to Canada") [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 9 Mo Major Canada: Armstrong minute to Alexander (Armstrong talks with Pitfield, Canadian Cabinet Secretary) [patriation of the Canadian Constitution] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 12 Th Major Canada: UK High Commission Ottawa to FCO ("Reagan's Visit to Canada: 10-11 March") [account of Reagan's visit] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 13 Fr Major Canada: Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster's office record of conversation (Pym-Canadian High Commissioner to UK, Jean Wadds) [patriation of the Canadian Constitution] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 19 Th Major Canada: Agent-General of Quebec, Gilles Loiselle letter to MT (patriation of the Canadian Constitution) [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 25 We Major Cabinet: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Parliamentary Affairs") [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 31 Tu Major Canada: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Patriation of Canadian Constitution") [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 31 Tu Major Canada: Canadian High Commissioner to UK, Jean Wadds letter to MT ("The Role of the United Kingdom in the Amendment of the Canadian Constitution") [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 2 Th Major Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 14th (British Telecommunications Bill, Poland, Canadian Constitution, Belize, Thailand, Zimbabwe, Iran, United States, EC Affairs) [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 14 Tu Major Canada: MT letter to David Ginsburg MP (transmitting BBC External Service programmes in French to Canada) [patriation of the Canadian Constitution] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 30 Th Major Canada: UK High Commissioner to FCO (“Trudeau’s constitutional drama: the first four acts”) [“attempt at a coup d’etat to change the balance of power in the federation”] [declassified 2010]
81 May 5 Tu Major Canada: UKE Rome to FCO ("Secretary of State's Meeting with Canadian Foreign Minister") [patriation of the Canadian Constitution: Carrington meets with Mark MacGuigan] [declassified 2011]
81 May 11 Mo Major Canada: Dick Johnston minute for Premier of Alberta (“Conference Call of Eight Premiers”) [patriation - “Our objective is to have the UK Parliament defeat the resolution”] [declassified 2010]
81 May 11 Mo Major Canada: Canadian High Commissioner to UK, Jean Wadds letter to MT (proposed Resolution) [patriation of the Canadian Constitution] [declassified 2011]
81 May 15 Fr Major Canada: FCO to UK High Commission Ottawa ("Call on Mr Pym by Mr Colinette [Parliamentary Secretary to Speaker of Canadian House of Commons]") [patriation of the Canadian Constitution] [declassified 2011]
81 May 18 Mo Major Canada: FCO to UK High Commission Ottawa (patriation of the Canadian Constitution) ["Our fears that Mr Pym's message might get garbled appear to have been realised"] [declassified 2011]
81 May 20 We Major Canada: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Parliamentary Affairs: Canada") [declassified 2011]
81 May 21 Th Major Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 20th (MPs' and Ministers' Pay, Canadian Constitution, Lebanon, France, UK Presidency of Council of Europe, Japan, Northern Ireland, Civil Service Pay) [declassified 2011]