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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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82 Feb 15 Mo Major Canada: Lévesque letter to Pym (Canada Bill) [“it would be highly improper for the United Kingdom Parliament to act in the matter until the conclusion of the legal proceedings now in progress”] [declassified December 2014]
82 Feb 26 Fr Major Canada: Atkins PS letter to Coles (“Canada Bill: Letter from Quebec Agent-General”) [“Loiselle will be well aware that he should approach HMG through the Canadian High Commission”] [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 Mar 12 Fr Major Canada: Young PS letter to Coles (“Canada Bill: Proceedings in the Lords”) [government response to Opposition amendment] [declassified December 2014]
82 Mar 12 Fr Major Canada: Michael Armstrong minute to MT (“Parliamentary Business”) [Canada Bill, social security] [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]
82 Apr 22 Th Major Canada: Lord Chancellor’s PS letter to Whitmore (“Proclamation of the Canadian Constitution”) [“The Canadians were plainly disappointed that the Prime Minister was unable to come”] [declassified December 2014]
82 Jun 16 We Major Canada: Cockfield minute to MT (“Visit to Canada: 27 May-6 June”) [“was particularly helpful in re-affirming the United Kingdom’s friendly relations with Canada”] [declassified December 2014]
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]
83 Nov 8 Tu Major Canada: Central Office letter to Alison (visits by overseas party leaders) [proposed meetings with MT] [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 Jul 16 Mo Major Canada: MT letter to Turner (new High Commissioner to Canada) [letter of introduction] [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]
84 Dec 10 Mo Major 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 Mo Major 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]
85 Mar 29 Fr Major Canada: FCO letter to Canadian High Commission (McMurtry visit to London) [meetings arranged with MT, FCO ministers and officials] [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 Dec 3 Mo Minor Canada: Budd minute to Charles Powell (“Visit of Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs”) [attendees] [declassified December 2014]
85 Apr 4 Th Minor Canada: Budd letter to Ricketts (Youth of the World statue) [MT’s message for inscription] [declassified December 2014]