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1981 Oct 26 - 1982 Feb 9
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/669
Canada (UK/Canadian relations: patriation of the Canadian constitution) (Part 4)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Jul 25
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 285
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81 Dec 10 Th Major Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 40th (Parliamentary Affairs, NATO, Soviet Union, Arab-Israeli Conflict, EC Affairs, Index-Linked Pensions, ECHR: Closed Shop) [declassified 2011]
81 Dec 9 We Major Canada: Pattison briefing for MT at cabinet (“Parliamentary Affairs”) [“Repatriation [sic] issues now seem much easier”] [declassified 2013]
81 Dec 9 We Major Canada: Privy Council Office record of conversation (Pym-Chrétien) [Canadian constitution - parliamentary handling] [declassified 2013]
81 Dec 9 We Major Canada: Whitmore letter for Lord President (“Canadian Constitution”) [MT advises the Palace to abandon idea of HMQ visiting Canada for 15 Feb] [declassified 2013]
81 Dec 8 Tu Major Canada: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Pym) [Canadian constitution - parliamentary handling] [declassified 2013]
81 Dec 4 Fr Major Canada: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Trudeau phone call) [timing of UK patriation legislation] [declassified 2013]
81 Dec 4 Fr Minor Canada: Armstrong letter to Lord Chancellor’s Permanent Secretary (“The Canadian Constitution”) [Canadians want to televise Royal Assent] [declassified 2013]
81 Dec 3 Th Major Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 39th (Parliamentary Affairs, Spain, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Angola, Seychelles, South Africa, EC Affairs, Northern Ireland) [declassified 2011]
81 Dec 3 Th Major Canada: FCO letter to No.10 letter (“Canada”) [line to take in PM’s phone call with Trudeau] [declassified 2013]
81 Dec 3 Th Major Canada: UK High Commission to FCO (impressions of Trudeau) [no early retirement - “envisages a fight to the death with Mr Lévesque”; scepticism about US & nuclear weapons] [declassified 2013]
81 Dec 3 Th Major Canada: UK High Commission to FCO (“Constitution”) [Trudeau “the reverse of jubilant”] [declassified 2013]
81 Dec 3 Th Major Canada: UK High Commission to FCO (Trudeau to call MT) [Trudeau wants speedy passage of bill “to deprive Mr Levesque of a weapon in the all-out battle for the future of Quebec”] [declassified 2013]
81 Dec 3 Th Major Canada: UK High Commission to FCO (“Constitution”) [lunch conversation with Trudeau] [declassified 2013]
81 Dec 3 Th Major Canada: Privy Council Office to Lord Privy Seal (advice to Moran) [line to take at lunch with Trudeau] [declassified 2013]
81 Nov 27 Fr Major Canada: Lord Carrington to Canadian Secretary for External Affairs MacGuigan (accepts invitation to visit) [“Your breakthrough on the Constitution is … very good news for us all … statesmanship”] [declassified 2013]
81 Nov 26 Th Major Canada: UK High Commission to FCO (“Constitution”) [recommends against MT congratulating Trudeau on agreement] [declassified 2013]
81 Nov 10 Tu Major Canada: FCO internal minute (“Canadian Constitution. Federal-Provincial Agreement”) [analysis; “Vancouver Consensus”] [declassified 2013]
81 Nov 10 Tu Major Canada: Canadian Secretary for External Affairs to Lord Carrington (deep thanks) [“You will have heard the good news and, for our part, we think we heard your sigh from across the water!”] [declassified 2013]
81 Nov 10 Tu Major Canada: UK High Commission to FCO (“Constitution”) [situation] [declassified 2013]
81 Nov 10 Tu Major Canada: Armstrong minute for No.10 (meeting with Lord Moran) [worries about his standing in Ottawa] [declassified 2013]