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Article: Canadians Amend Constitution to Include Quebec's `Distinct Society'
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- The Washington Post
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- June 4, 1987
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Canadian leaders today approved constitutional amendments
recognizing French-speaking Quebec Province as a "distinct society"
within Canada in exchange for Quebec's formal agreement to accept the
terms of the constitution.
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and the country's 10 provincial
premiers reached accord on the language of the amendments at dawn
after a negotiating session lasting more than 19 hours.
"Today, we close one chapter in Canadian history, and begin
another," Mulroney said later at a formal ceremony where the
agreement was signed. "Today, we welcome Quebec back to the Canadian
constitutional family.
"You knew the importance of ending Quebec's constitutional
estrangement," he ...