Introduction -- Opening volleys -- All hands on deck -- The Referendum fight -- Thatcher's green light -- Justice vs. the Provinces -- Unilaterally -- Thatcher discovers the Charter -- The battle begins -- The wrath of the west -- Thatcher loses control -- The empire strikes back -- The feds strike back -- Quebec and its allies -- Coup at the court -- Null and void -- The lady's not for turning -- Peace through compromise -- God bless Margaret Thatcher -- The battle of Canada -- The battle for truth -- Document
Summary
After the referendum in 1980, Pierre Elliott Trudeau turned his sights on repatriating the Constitution in an effort to make Canada fully independent from Britain. What should have been a simple process snowballed into a complicated intrigue. -- Historian Frederic Bastien describes with great flair how the maverick Trudeau and the uncompromising Thatcher entered into one of history's most unlikely marriages of convenience in order to repatriate the Canadian Constitution
