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1982 Feb 11 - 1985 Jun 14
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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82 Nov 24 We Major Canada: MoD letter to Coles (“Canada: Training Charges”) [MoD and Canadian officials discussing “the possibility of reciprocal arrangements for offsetting costs”] [declassified December 2014]
82 Dec 10 Fr Major Canada: MoD letter to Coles (“Canada: Training Charges”) [“every reason to believe that mutually satisfactory offset packages can be constructed”] [declassified December 2014]
82 Mar 23 Tu Minor Canada: MT letter to Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada (thanks for note and photograph) [released 2013]
84 Jul 16 Mo Major Canada: MT letter to Turner (new High Commissioner to Canada) [letter of introduction] [declassified December 2014]
82 Mar 26 Fr Major Canada: MT note to Trudeau (Canada Bill debate) [“Your resolve in seeking an expeditious resolution of the Canadian constitutional question in the Parliament at Westminster has been very much appreciated”] [declassified December 2014]
84 Nov 28 We Major 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]
85 Apr 16 Tu Major Canada: Mulroney letter to MT (new High Commissioner in London) [McMurtry’s appointment “will promote the relations of close friendship which so happily exist between our two countries”] [declassified December 2014]
85 Mar 13 We Major 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]
82 Feb 26 Fr Minor Canada: Noiseux letter to Coles (visit to London) [thanks for arranging “a very informative programme for me”] [declassified December 2014]
82 Mar 1 Mo Major Canada: Pym letter to Lévesque (Canada Bill) [“We believe the agreement of nine out of the ten Provinces constitutes a substantial mesaure of support for the proposals”] [declassified December 2014]
82 Feb 1 Mo Major Canada: Quebec government memo (“The role of the United Kingdom parliament in relation to the British North America Act”) [“the Canadian Resolution is still unconstitutional in the conventional sense”] [declassified December 2014]
85 Apr 2 Tu Minor Canada: Ricketts letter to Charles Powell (UN statue to commemorate International Youth Year) [list of responses to invitations for inscriptions] [declassified December 2014]
85 Mar 7 Th Minor 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 Feb 13 We Major Canada: Ricketts letter to Charles Powell (“Canadian National Citizens’ Coalition”) [should deflect proposed award to MT of honorary, lifetime membership] [declassified December 2014]
84 May 31 Th Minor Canada: Ricketts letter to Coles (“Governor-General of Canada”) [proposed dinner with Jeanne Sauve at High Commissioner’s residence] [declassified December 2014]
84 Jan 17 Tu Major Canada: Sauve letter to MT (appointment as Governor-General) [will make “every effort to sustain and encourge the very warm and complimentary relationship we in Canada share with Britain”] [declassified December 2014]
84 Oct 22 Mo Major Canada: Turner letter to MT (Brighton bomb) [“how glad we were you escaped without injury”] [declassified December 2014]
82 Feb 11 Th Major Canada: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO (“Canada Bill: Second Reading”) [Chrétien will be in London] [declassified December 2014]
82 Dec 8 We Major Canada: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO (“Canada: The Constitution: Dismissal of Quebec’s claim to a veto”) [“no one outside Quebec really thought that Quebec did have a veto”] [declassified December 2014]
82 Mar 31 We Major Canada: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO (“Canadian Constitutional Celebrations”) [politicians invited] [declassified December 2014]