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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)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2011 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 386
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Date Valuesort descending Title
81 Jul 10 Fri 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 28 Tue 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 Tue Canada: FCO record of conversation (Atkins-Canadian High Commissioner to UK, Jean Wadds-Luce-Trefgarne) [patriation of Canadian Constitution] [declassified 2011]
81 Sep 29 Tue 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 Wed Canada: Minutes of ad hoc Cabinet Sub-Committee meeting ("Patriation of the Canadian Constitution") [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 1 Thu 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 Sun Canada: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Canadian Constitution") [brief for MT meeting with Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 5 Mon Canada: UKDEL Melbourne record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada) [patriation of the Canadian Constitution] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 16 Fri Canada: UK High Commission Ottawa to FCO ("Canadian Constitution: Contingency Planning") [patriation of the Canadian Constitution] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 2 Thu 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 May 21 Thu 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]
81 Jul 2 Thu Canada: FCO to UK High Commission Ottawa (“Canadian Constitution”) [Havers conversation with Laskin, Canadian Supreme Court Chief Justice] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 26 Fri Canada: Armstrong minute for Alexander (“Canadian Constitution”) [conversation with Canadian cabinet secretary, reporting Laskin, Canadian Supreme Court Chief Justice] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 16 Thu Canada: FCO Legal Adviser minute for Berthoud (“Canadian Constitution”) [remarks by Bora Laskin, Canadian Supreme Court Chief Justice] [declassified 2010]
81 Sep 10 Thu Canada: UK High Commissioner minute (call on the Canadian Chief Justice) [Laskin obliquely saying Supreme Court was divided] [declassified 2010]
80 Oct 9 Thu Canada: UK High Commissioner minute (meeting with Canadian Justice Estey) [draft bill “defective in law”] [declassified 2010]
81 May 11 Mon 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]
80 Jun 27 Fri Canada: Government of Alberta minute (Trudeau meeting with MT) [MT finds Trudeau “neurotic and paranoid regarding patriation”] [declassified 2010]
81 Jul 3 Fri Canada: UK High Commissioner to FCO (Laskin comments) [“unlikely in the extreme” Canadian government not informed] [declassified 2010]
81 Apr 30 Thu 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]