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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1423
Canada (UK/Canadian relations: patriation of the Canadian constitution) (Part 5)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 263
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Date Value Title
84 Oct 3 Wed Canada: Charles Powell minute to Appleyard (“New Canadian Prime Minister”) [proposed meeting with Mulroney: MT’s autumn diary “already exceptionally full”] [declassified December 2014]
84 Oct 22 Mon Canada: Turner letter to MT (Brighton bomb) [“how glad we were you escaped without injury”] [declassified December 2014]
84 Oct 29 Mon Canada: Howe PS minute to Coles (“Call by Lord Moran”) [Moran “will no doubt wish to discuss the ways in which Britain could pay more attention to Canada”] [declassified December 2014]
84 Nov 28 Wed Canada: Mulroney letter to MT (election as new Canadian Prime Minister) [“our two countries can do much together to meet the enormous challenges facing us”] [declassified December 2014]
84 Nov 29 Thu Canada: Budd letter to Charles Powell (“Visit of Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs”) [“the first opportunity we shall have for substantive discussions with a member of the new Canadian Government”] [declassified December 2014]
84 Dec 3 Mon Canada: Budd minute to Charles Powell (“Visit of Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs”) [attendees] [declassified December 2014]
84 Dec 4 Tue Canada: Budd letter to Charles Powell (“Canadian Prime Minister”) [proposed visit ahead of Bonn Economic Summit] [declassified December 2014]
84 Dec 6 Thu Canada: Charles Powell minute to Budd (“Visit to UK by Canadian Prime Minister”) [MT agrees in principle to meeting ahead of Bonn Economic Summit] [declassified December 2014]
84 Dec 10 Mon Canada: Appleyard minute to Charles Powell (“Visit of Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs: 10-12 December 1984”) [objectives, briefing papers] [declassified December 2014]
84 Dec 10 Mon Canada: FCO letter to Charles Powell (“Proposed new Canadian High Commissioner”) [seeks MT’s agreement to informing Canadian Government that they will welcome McMurtry in London] [declassified December 2014]
84 Dec 11 Tue Canada: Charles Powell minute to MT (“Meeting with Joe Clark, 12 December”) [suggested topics of conversation] [declassified December 2014]
85 Jan 18 Fri Canada: Budd letter to Charles Powell (“Visit to UK by Canadian Prime Minister”) [dates of proposed visit have changed] [declassified December 2014]
85 Feb 2 Sat Canada: Charles Powell letter to FCO (“Proposed new Canadian High Commissioner”) [date of announcement] [declassified December 2014]
85 Feb 6 Wed Canada: Budd letter to Charles Powell (“Change of Premier in Ontario”) [proposed message to outgoing Premier] [declassified December 2014]
85 Feb 13 Wed Canada: Ricketts letter to Charles Powell (“Canadian National Citizens’ Coalition”) [should deflect proposed award to MT of honorary, lifetime membership] [declassified December 2014]
85 Mar 7 Thu Canada: Ricketts letter to Charles Powell (UN statue to commemorate International Youth Year) [risk that if MT agrees to send a message for inscription “various other respectable and equally deserving organisations from UK and other countries may seek similar treatment”] [declassified December 2014]
85 Mar 11 Mon Canada: Charles Powell note to Ricketts (UN statue to commemorate International Youth Year) [MT regards request for a message to inscribe as “a rather strange request”] [declassified December 2014]
85 Mar 13 Wed Canada: No.10 record of conversation (“Meeting between the Prime Minister and the Prime Minister of Canada, Mr. Mulroney, at the British Embassy, Moscow on 13 March 1985 at 1730”) [Mulroney’s priorities: US alliance and economic relationship; federal-provincial relations; budget deficit; SDI] [declassified December 2014]
85 Mar 29 Fri Canada: FCO letter to Canadian High Commission (McMurtry visit to London) [meetings arranged with MT, FCO ministers and officials] [declassified December 2014]
85 Apr 2 Tue Canada: Ricketts letter to Charles Powell (UN statue to commemorate International Youth Year) [list of responses to invitations for inscriptions] [declassified December 2014]