Charlottetown Accord was a package of proposed amendments to the Constitution of Canada, proposed by the Canadian federal and provincial governments in 1992.
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12 Facts About Charlottetown Accord
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Charlottetown Accord would have substantially altered the status of Aboriginal groups in Canadian political society.
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Beyond these general principles, the Charlottetown Accord did not provide any details on the precise form that such Aboriginal self-government would have taken, or how the transition would have been effected.
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Central component of the Charlottetown Accord was the Canada Clause, which was intended to be an interpretive section of the Canadian Constitution.
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Charlottetown Accord attempted to resolve long-standing disputes around the division of powers between federal and provincial jurisdiction.
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Charlottetown Accord declared that forestry, mining, natural resources, and cultural policy would become provincial jurisdictions, with the federal government retaining jurisdiction over national cultural bodies such as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the National Film Board.
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Charlottetown Accord proposed a number of major reforms to Federal institutions.
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Charlottetown Accord proposed a social charter to promote such objectives as health care, welfare, education, environmental protection, and collective bargaining.
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Canada was experiencing a deepening recession since the Meech Lake Charlottetown Accord process ended on June 23,1990, and many saw a political elite obsessed with constitutional affairs to the detriment of the health of the economy.
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Charlottetown Accord was especially unpopular in Western provinces, where prominent figures argued that the Charlottetown Accord was essentially a document created by the nation's elites to codify their vision of what Canada "should" be.
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Many thought, from a perspective favouring national unity, that the result given was probably the next-best result to the Charlottetown Accord passing: since both Quebec and English Canada rejected it, there really was not a fundamental disagreement as there was with Meech.
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One of the Charlottetown Accord's reforms dealing specifically with New Brunswick was successfully enacted in 1993 as section 16.
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