Meech Lake Accord: Charlottetown Accord

Canada Dept: The failures of these proposals contributed to the feeling that there was a fundamental impasse between Quebec and other provinces in Canada and gave impetus to independence, according to Winnipeg Free Press. In order to understand the Charlottetown Accord, one has to understand the Meech Lake Accord. But in order to understand Meech, one has to go back even further, to the circumstances surrounding Canada's 1982 Constitution and qUEBEC CITY -- Quebec's independence movement in many ways owes its current resurgence to the fallout from the constitutional talks of the 1980s and 1990s. Yet, at the same time, Canada lost out, not only in terms of national unity but also by failing to achieve meaningful changes proposed for such projects as the Charlottetown Accord. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.