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Document Self-government for the aboriginal peoples of Canada; the Mi'kmaq Nation starts constitution-making ALBERT P. BLAUSTEIN Rutgers University School of Law, Camden, New Jersey, USA In group rights voting on October 26, 1992 the people of Canada said 'no' to a series of proposed constitutional amendments. These amendments were cast from the Charlottetown Accord of August 28 which, among other things, 'recognized' the distinctiveness of Quebec, 'its language, its unique culture and its civil law tradition'. For the people of Quebec it was an insufficient recognition of its group rights; for most of the rest of Canada - for English Canada - it was too much. Also incorporated into the Charlottetown Accord was aboriginal constitu- tional reform. This included 'recognition' of 'the inherent right of the Aboriginal peoples of Canada of self-government within Canada'. Such aboriginal governments would then be one of the three constitutional orders of Canada - the other two being the federal government in Ottawa and the governments of the ten provinces. Few said that this was too much. But most of the aboriginal peoples themselves contended that it was too little, for in paragraph 42 of the Charlottetown Accord were these words concerning the
International Journal on Minority and Group Rights – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1993
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