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PRONUNCIATION OF MEECH LAKE ACCORD

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MEECH LAKE ACCORD

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Meech Lake Accord is a noun.
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WHAT DOES MEECH LAKE ACCORD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Meech Lake Accord

The Meech Lake Accord was a package of proposed amendments to the Constitution of Canada negotiated in 1987 by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and the ten provincial premiers. It was intended to persuade the government of Quebec to endorse the 1982 constitutional amendment and increase support in Quebec for remaining within Canada. Its rejection had the effect of energizing support for Quebec sovereignty.

Definition of Meech Lake Accord in the English dictionary

The definition of Meech Lake Accord in the dictionary is the agreement reached in 1987 at Meech Lake, Quebec, at a Canadian federal-provincial conference that accepted Quebec's conditions for signing the Constitution Act of 1982. The Accord lapsed when the legislatures of two provinces, Newfoundland and Quebec, failed to ratify it by the deadline of June 23, 1990.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MEECH LAKE ACCORD


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bleach
bliːtʃ
breach
briːtʃ
breech
briːtʃ
each
iːtʃ
eche
iːtʃ
impeach
ɪmˈpiːtʃ
leach
liːtʃ
leech
liːtʃ
outreach
ˌaʊtˈriːtʃ
overreach
ˌəʊvəˈriːtʃ
peach
piːtʃ
preach
priːtʃ
reach
riːtʃ
reech
riːtʃ
screech
skriːtʃ
speech
spiːtʃ
teach
tiːtʃ
Wisbech
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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MEECH LAKE ACCORD

Medvedev
Medway
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meed
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meekly
meekness
meemie
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meerschaum
Meerut

WORDS THAT END LIKE MEECH LAKE ACCORD

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cord
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disaccord
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of one´s own accord
off the record
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Synonyms and antonyms of Meech Lake Accord in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Meech Lake Accord» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

米奇湖协议
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Meech Lake Accord
570 millions of speakers

English

Meech Lake Accord
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

MEECH झील एकॉर्ड
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

Meech بحيرة الوفاق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Мич -Лейк Accord
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Meech Lake Accord
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Meech লেক অ্যাকর্ড
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Accord du lac Meech
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Meech Lake Accord
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Meech See Accord
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

Meech湖アコード
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

Meech 호수 어코드
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Meech Lake Accord
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Meech Lake Accord
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மேசே ஏரி ஒப்பந்தம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मीच लेक करार
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Meech Lake Accord
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Meech Lake Accord
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Meech Lake Accord
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Міч - Лейк Accord
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Meech Lake Accord
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Meech Λίμνη Accord
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

MEECH Lake Accord
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Meech Lake Accord
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

Meech Lake Accord
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Meech Lake Accord

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MEECH LAKE ACCORD»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MEECH LAKE ACCORD» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Meech Lake Accord

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MEECH LAKE ACCORD»

Discover the use of Meech Lake Accord in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Meech Lake Accord and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Meech Lake Post-mortem: Is Quebec Sovereignty Inevitable?
They demanded that the charter take full precedence over the entire Meech Lake Accord.1 In Quebec, however, groups defending women's rights did not believe that the distinct nature of Quebec was a threat to the principle of equality of the ...
Pierre Fournier, 1991
2
Multiculturalism and the Canadian Constitution
What may be most instructive in understanding what the defeat of the Meech Lake Accord says about national policy making today is how important a role democratic processes played in both the efforts to save the Accord in 1990 and in its ...
Stephen J. Tierney, 2011
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Canada: The State of the Federation 1990
Competing Constitutional Visions: The Meech Lake Accord. Toronto: Carswell, 1988, p. 295-306. "Meech Lake and Shifting Conceptions of Canadian Federalism." Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de Politiques, 14, supplement ( 1988): S7-S24.
Ronald Lampman Watts, Douglas M. douglas Brown, 1990
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Parallel Accords: The American Precedent
Meech Lake Accord from New Brunswick, Manitoba and Newfoundland prior to the 23 June 1990 deadline through agreement by the federal government and all the provinces on a second parallel constitutional accord. Such a "parallel ...
Ronald Lampman Watts, Darrel Robert Reid, Dwight Herperger, 1990
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Reimagining Canada: Language, Culture, Community, and the ...
See Peter Hogg, "Analysis of the New Spending Provision (Section 106A)," in Katherine E. Swinton and Carol J. Rogerson, eds., Competing Constitutional Visions: The Meech Lake Accord (Toronto: Carswell, 1988), 155. 21 Constitution Act ...
Jeremy Webber, 1994
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Canada's Francophone Minority Communities: Constitutional ...
See Pearson Accord First Ministers Conference on the Constitution, 43 Flynn, Jacques, 38 Fontaine, Won, 274, 284; appears before Special Joint Committee on the Meech Lake Accord, 259-60; attempts to alter the Federation's opposition to ...
Michael D. Behiels, 2005
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Community Besieged: The Anglophone Minority and the Politics ...
Their president, Helen Koeppe, said that the Meech Lake Accord was unnecessary since Quebec was already subject to the constitution. She also suggested the repeal of Section 59.90 In the House of Commons Sheila Finestone initially ...
Garth Stevenson, 1999
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Confederation: The Dominion of Canada : Grades 7-8
The Dominion of Canada : Grades 7-8 Frances Stanford, Lisa Solski, On the Mark Press. The first meeting regarding the Meech Lake Accord was held at Meech Lake, Québec on April 30, 1987. A second meeting was held in Ottawa on June 3 , ...
Frances Stanford, Lisa Solski, On the Mark Press, 2013
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Canadian Studies in the New Millennium
The Mulroney government succeeded in demonstrating its commitment to negotiation, as exemplified by the Meech Lake Accord, which garnered initial unanimous agreement among the federal government and the provinces. The Mulroney ...
Patrick James, Mark J. Kasoff, 2008
10
Everyone Says No: Public Service Broadcasting and the ...
158, 161; and Charlottetown Accord, 78–9, 143–4, 146, 149–50, 178; and Meech Lake Accord, 82, 104, 112–13, 117 multiculturalism, 28–9, 96–7, 151, 158–9; and broadcasting 3–4,7,20–1,58,151, 164–6 NAC. See National Action ...
Kyle Conway, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MEECH LAKE ACCORD»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Meech Lake Accord is used in the context of the following news items.
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MLA Report - July 17, 2015
... the legislature recognized the 70th anniversary of VE-Day and the 25th anniversary of Elijah Harper's stand against the Meech Lake Accord. «Thompson Citizen, Jul 15»
2
Editorial: Twenty-five years after the Oka Crisis
... others even voiced suspicions that the crisis was some kind of plot to make Quebec look bad, after the failure of the Meech Lake Accord. «Montreal Gazette, Jul 15»
3
Martyn Brown: Voting to be heard—or not (Part 2)
It should be unthinkable in the post-Meech Lake Accord, post-Charlottetown Accord age. If anything, that right to vote on any proposed change ... «Straight.com, Jun 15»
4
Canada Day, as prime ministers see it
Take 25 years ago, for example: The nation's birthday was preceded by the calamitous failure of the Meech Lake accord. One week later, Prime ... «The Globe and Mail, Jun 15»
5
Meech Lake was sunk. Its ideas live on
The Meech Lake accord died because of two words its opponents misconstrued to mean the end of Canada as they knew it. To them ... «The Globe and Mail, Jun 15»
6
Today in History - June 28
In 1988, the B.C. and Ontario legislatures both ratified the Meech Lake accord. In 1990, the mayor of Hull, Que., told Queen Elizabeth she was ... «mysask.com, Jun 15»
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Katherine Tsetsos: The Meech Lake Accord is not history, it is simply …
I read Allan Levine's piece in the National Post ('Mulroney's nightmare scenario,' June 23) on the defeat of the Meech Lake Accord and I ... «National Post, Jun 15»
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The myths of Meech Lake accord live on
There are millions of Canadians who have no memory of the day the Meech Lake accord crashed and burned, 25 years ago this week. «Saskatoon StarPhoenix, Jun 15»
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#TBT: The birth of the Bloc
... to save the increasingly unpopular Meech Lake Accord, which sought to define Quebec as a 'distinct society' and bring the province into the ... «iPolitics.ca, Jun 15»
10
Don't fan separatist flames
These are yesterday's ideas. They made more sense during the "distinct society" talks of the Meech Lake Accord and Charlottetown Accord. «Toronto Sun, Jun 15»

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