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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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Date Value Title
81 Jun 2 Tu Major Canada: Agent-General Quebec, Gilles Loiselle letter to MT (patriation of the Canadian Constitution: Supreme Court of Cananda judgement) [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 10 We Major Canada: Armstrong minute to Alexander (Armstrong talks with Canadian Cabinet Secretary, Michael Pitfield) [patriation of the Canadian Constitution] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 16 Tu Major Canada: UK High Commission Ottawa to FCO ("Meeting with Mr Trudeau") [patriation of the Canadian Constitution] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 19 Fr Major Canada: FCO to UK High Commission Ottawa ("Constitution") [patriation of the Canadian Constitution: Kirby, Canadian Secretary for Federal Provincial Relations, visits FCO] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 26 Fr Major Canada: Armstrong minute for Alexander (“Canadian Constitution”) [conversation with Canadian cabinet secretary, reporting Laskin, Canadian Supreme Court Chief Justice] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 1 We Major Canada: UK High Commission Ottawa to FCO ("Canadian Constitution") [UK Commissioner meets with Canadian Cabinet Secretary] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 2 Th Major Canada: FCO to UK High Commission Ottawa (“Canadian Constitution”) [Havers conversation with Laskin, Canadian Supreme Court Chief Justice] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 3 Fr Major Canada: UK High Commissioner to FCO (Laskin comments) [“unlikely in the extreme” Canadian government not informed] [declassified 2010]
81 Jul 9 Th Major Canada: Armstrong minute to Alexander (meeting with Canadian Cabinet Secretary) [Supreme Court Chief Justice Laskin meeting colleagues to “bang their heads together”] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 10 Fr Major Canada: FCO to UK High Commission Ottawa ("Canadian Constitution") [Canadian Government anxious at progress of Canadian Bill through House of Commons] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 16 Th Major Canada: FCO Legal Adviser minute for Berthoud (“Canadian Constitution”) [remarks by Bora Laskin, Canadian Supreme Court Chief Justice] [declassified 2010]
81 Jul 28 Tu Major Canada: FCO letter to No.10 ("The Canadian Constitution: Conversation in Ottawa") [conversation between MT and Trudeau regarding patriation of Canadian Constitution] [declassified 2011]
81 Sep 10 Th Major Canada: UK High Commissioner minute (call on the Canadian Chief Justice) [Laskin obliquely saying Supreme Court was divided] [declassified 2010]
81 Sep 29 Tu Major Canada: FCO record of conversation (Atkins-Canadian High Commissioner to UK, Jean Wadds-Luce-Trefgarne) [patriation of Canadian Constitution] [declassified 2011]
81 Sep 29 Tu Major Canada: Canadian High Commissioner to UK, Jean Wadds letter to MT (summary of the judgement of the Supreme Court of Canada regarding patriation of the Canadian Constitution) [declassified 2011]
81 Sep 30 We Major Canada: Minutes of ad hoc Cabinet Sub-Committee meeting ("Patriation of the Canadian Constitution") [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 1 Th Major Canada: Braine message to Alexander (message to pass on to MT: need for MT to communicate concerns of Parliament to Trudeau) [patriation of the Canadian Constitution] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 4 Su Major Canada: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Canadian Constitution") [brief for MT meeting with Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 5 Mo Major Canada: UKDEL Melbourne record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada) [patriation of the Canadian Constitution] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 16 Fr Major Canada: UK High Commission Ottawa to FCO ("Canadian Constitution: Contingency Planning") [patriation of the Canadian Constitution] [declassified 2011]