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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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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 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 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 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 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 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 Jul 2 Th Major Canada: FCO to UK High Commission Ottawa (“Canadian Constitution”) [Havers conversation with Laskin, Canadian Supreme Court Chief Justice] [declassified 2011]
80 Jun 27 Fr Major Canada: Government of Alberta minute (Trudeau meeting with MT) [MT finds Trudeau “neurotic and paranoid regarding patriation”] [declassified 2010]
81 Sep 30 We Major Canada: Minutes of ad hoc Cabinet Sub-Committee meeting ("Patriation of the Canadian Constitution") [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 Jul 1 We Major Canada: UK High Commission Ottawa to FCO ("Canadian Constitution") [UK Commissioner meets with Canadian Cabinet Secretary] [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]
81 Jun 16 Tu Major Canada: UK High Commission Ottawa to FCO ("Meeting with Mr Trudeau") [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 Sep 10 Th Major Canada: UK High Commissioner minute (call on the Canadian Chief Justice) [Laskin obliquely saying Supreme Court was divided] [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 Jul 3 Fr Major Canada: UK High Commissioner to FCO (Laskin comments) [“unlikely in the extreme” Canadian government not informed] [declassified 2010]
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 Oct 5 Mo Major Canada: UKDEL Melbourne record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada) [patriation of the Canadian Constitution] [declassified 2011]
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]