Opinion: Do anything special on Monday? Me neither, and nor did most Canadians, even though April 17 is Canada\u0027s independence day.
It took two years before politicians decided that Confederation was worthy of a public holiday. By 1871, Canada stretched from sea to sea with the inclusion of British Columbia. And, in 1880, Britain ceded the islands of the Arctic archipelago extending Canada’s boundaries from sea to sea to sea.
The Vancouver Sun’s Saturday edition had a Canadian Press story. It reported no stirring speeches from Canadians that day. The most optimistic remarks were the Queen’s. She expressed her “unbounded confidence in the future of this wonderful country.”Article content The deal was brokered late at night — prosaically, in a kitchen. What resulted was the same as what committees do when they are asked to draw a horse: They come back with a camel.Article contentConstitutional amendments can only be made with the consent of Parliament and the approval of seven provinces representing half of the population. It has rendered the Constitution almost unalterable.
On April 17, 1982, Quebec Premier René Lévesque led the first of many marches through Montreal on signing day, launching four decades of smouldering separatism.Article contentProminent Indigenous leaders called it a day of mourning. While the Constitution “recognized and affirmed” the “existing aboriginal and treaty rights of the aboriginal peoples of Canada,” nobody knew what it meant. All this time later, that is still being hammered out in the courts, legislatures and Parliament.
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