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Timestamp: 2019-08-23 03:50:07
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§41', '§41', '§1', '§2', '§25', '§27', '§35', '§91']

The June 3, 1987 Constitutional Accord (Proposal - a proposal in that it never did receive the necessary endorsements from the provincial legislatures.),(commonly lknown as the Meech Lake Accord.)
AND WHEREAS certain portions of the amendment proposed in the schedule hereto relate to matters referred to in §41 of the Constitution Act, 1982;
AND WHEREAS §41 of the Constitution Act, 1982 provides that an amendment to the Constitution of Canada may be made by proclamation issued by the Governor General under the Great Seal of Canada where so authorized by resolutions of the Senate and the House of Commons and of the legislative assembly of each province;
FOLLOWS IN ORIGINAL - SCHEDULE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT, 1987
Constitution Act, 1867. 1. The Constitution Act, 1867 is amended by adding thereto, immediately after §1 thereof, the following section:
2. (1) The Constitution of Canada shall be interpreted in a manner consistent with (a) the recognition that the existence of French-speaking Canadians, centered in Quebec but also present elsewhere in Canada, and English-speaking Canadians, concentrated outside Quebec but also present in Quebec, constitutes a fundamental characteristic of Canada; and (b) the recognition that Quebec constitutes within Canada a distinct society.
( 2) The role of the Parliament of Canada and the provincial legislatures to preserve the fundamental characteristic of Canada referred to in paragraph (1) (a) is affirmed
(a) by resolutions of the Senate and House of Commons and of the legislative assembly of the province that is party to the agreement; or, (b), in such other manner as is set out in the agreement.
101A. (1) The court existing under the name of the Supreme Court of Canada is hereby continued as the general court of appeal for Canada, and as an additional court for the better administration of the laws of Canada, and shall continue to be a superior court of record. (2) The Supreme Court of Canada shall consist of a chief justice to be called the Chief Justice of Canada and eight other judges, who shall be appointed by the Governor General in Council by letters patent under the Great Seal.
101B. (1) Any person may be appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Canada who after having admitted to the bar of any province or territory, has, for a total of at least ten years, been a judge of any courts in Canada or a member of the bar of any province or territory. (2) At least three judge of the Supreme Court of Canada shall be appointed from among persons who, after having been admitted to the bar of Quebec, have, for a total of at least ten years, been judges of any court of Quebec or of any court established by the Parliament of Canada, or members of the bar of Quebec.
101C. (1) Where a vacancy occurs in the Supreme Court of Canada, the government of each province may, in relation to that vacancy, submit to the Minister of Justice of Canada the names of any of the persons who have been admitted to the bar of the province and are qualified under section 101B for appointment to that Court. (2) Where an appointment is made to the Supreme Court of Canada, the Governor General in Council shall, except where the Chief Justice is appointed from among members of the Court, appoint a person whose name has been submitted under subsection (1) and who is acceptable to the Queen's Privy Council for Canada. (3) Where an appointment is made in accordance with subsection (2) of any of the three judges necessary to meet the requirement set out in subsection 101B(2), the Governor General in Council shall appoint a person whose name has been submitted by the Government of Quebec. (4) Where an appointment is made in accordance with subsection (2) otherwise than as required under subsection (3), the Governor General in Council shall appoint a person whose name has been submitted by the government of a province other than Quebec.
101E. (1) Sections 101A to 101D shall not be construed as abrogating or derogating from the powers of Parliament to make laws under section 101 except to the extent that such laws are inconsistent with those sections. (2) For greater certainty, section 101A shall not be construed as abrogating or derogating from the powers of the Parliament of Canada to make laws relating to the reference of questions of law or fact, or any other matters, to the Supreme Court of Canada.
106A. (1) The Government of Canada shall provide reasonable compensation to the government of a province that chooses not to participate in a national shared cost program that is established by the Government of Canada after the coming force of this section in an area of exclusive provincial jurisdiction, if the province carries on a program or initiative that is compatible with the national objectives. (2) Nothing in this section extends the legislative powers of the Parliament of Canada or of the legislatures of the provinces.
(a) the office of the Queen, the Governor General and the Lieutenant Governor of a province; (b) the powers of the Senate and the method of selecting Senators; (c) the number of members by which a province is entitled to be represented in the Senate and the residence qualifications of Senators; (d) the right of a province to a number of members in the House of Commons not less than the number of Senators by which the province was entitled to be represented on April 17, 1982; (e) the principle of proportionate representation of the provinces in the House of Commons prescribed by the Constitution of Canada; (f) subject to section 43, the use of the English or French language; (g) the Supreme Court of Canada; (h) the extension of existing provinces into the territories;
PART VI - CONSTITUTIONAL CONFERENCES
16. Nothing in §2 of the Constitution Act, 1867 affects §25 or §27 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, §35 of the Constitution Act, 1982 or class 24 of §91 of the Constitution Act, 1867 .
1987, the British North ASmerica Act; aka as the 1987 COnstiution Act or the Constitution Act, 1987. This is an English statutes and is at 30 & 31 Victoria, Chapter 3