In the 1980 referendum on sovereignty-association with Canada, 60% of the votes were against. Polls showed that the overwhelming majority of anglophones and immigrants voted against, and that francophones were almost equally divided. During the campaign, Pierre Trudeau stated that a "no" vote was a vote for patriation of Canada's constitution. As such, after the referendum, Lévesque went back to Ottawa to start negotiating constitutional changes. On the night of November 4, 1981, the Kitchen Accord took place. Delegations from the other nine provinces and the federal government reached a compromise in the absence of the Quebec delegation, which had left for the night to their hotels in Hull. Because of this event, the National Assembly refused to recognize the new Constitution Act, 1982, which patriated the Canadian constitution and made numerous modifications to it. The 1982 amendments apply to Quebec despite never having officially consented to it.