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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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82 Jan 25 Mo Major Canada: MT letter to Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada (patriation of Canadian constitution) [defends delaying second reading of UK bill till Alberta case decided] [declassified 2013]
82 Jan 25 Mo Major Canada: MT letter to Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada (patriation of Canadian constitution) [cannot visit Canada before 1983] [released 2013]
81 Oct 26 Mo Minor Canada: No.10 letter to FCO (“Cancun - the Canadian Constitution”) [not raised by Trudeau with MT at Cancun] [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]
82 Feb 3 We Major Canada: No.10 record of conversation (‘Canada’) [next step after Alberta case verdict] [declassified 2013]
81 Dec 21 Mo Minor Canada: No.10 to FCO (René Lévesque letter) [being released to press; prepare reply by 23 Dec] [declassified 2013]
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 17 Th Major Canada: Premier of Quebec René Lévesque to MT (patriation of constitution) [“notre opposition … une offensive sans précédent”] [declassified 2013]
82 Jan 13 We Major Canada: Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada letter to MT (patriation of Canadian constitution) [concern at postponement of second reading of UK bill] [released 2013]
81 Dec 18 Fr Major Canada: Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada letter to MT (patriation of the Canadian Constitution) [“deep gratitude for your support”] [released 2012]
81 Dec 9 We Major Canada: Privy Council Office record of conversation (Pym-Chrétien) [Canadian constitution - parliamentary handling] [declassified 2013]
82 Jan 12 Tu Major Canada: Privy Council Office record of conversation (Pym-Wadds) [Canadian patriation bill - delay of 2R till Indian case decided] [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 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 (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]
82 Jan 8 Fr Major Canada: UK High Commission to FCO (“Canada Bill”) [Labour & Indian issue] [declassified 2013]
82 Feb 8 Mo Major Canada: UK High Commission to FCO (“Canada Bill”) [“Canadian impatience is very much personal impatience by Mr Trudeau, but he is the PM”] [declassified 2013]
81 Nov 4 We Major Canada: UK High Commission to FCO (“Constitution”) [fluid state of federal-provincial negotiations] [declassified 2013]
81 Dec 3 Th Major Canada: UK High Commission to FCO (“Constitution”) [lunch conversation with Trudeau] [declassified 2013]