The prime minister gathered the nation’s 10 premiers at Willson House, and together they hammered out what has come to be known as the Meech Lake accord, an amendment designed to bring dissident ...

When he stood up in the National Assembly to comment on the demise of the Meech Lake Accord in June 1990, then-Quebec premier Robert Bourassa could not have imagined that two decades later ...

The Meech Lake accord lives in the land of what might have been. When it died on June 23, 1990, for lack of ratification, it took with it the best hope for tempering, if not ending, Quebec's deep ...

OTTAWA—Excerpts from minutes of meetings of cabinet and the cabinet committee on priorities and planning in the first half of 1990 as the clock ticked down on the ill-fated Meech Lake accord ...

The Meech Lake Accord died 10 years ago Friday, giving the sovereignty movement a new lease on life. Its failure has had a profound impact on our political landscape, according to Desmond Morton ...

OTTAWA - Cabinet discussions about the doomed Meech Lake accord are still considered so sensitive that the federal government is refusing to release details 20 years later. Cabinet minutes ...

Cabinet discussions about the doomed Meech Lake accord are still considered so sensitive that the federal government is refusing to release details 20 years later.

In this excerpt from his latest book, Paper Trails, he recalls a secret late-night meeting with the Indigenous politician who brought Brian Mulroney’s Meech Lake Accord to its knees.