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Louis Boivin wrote:
> 
> Karl Pollak (kpollak@portal.ca) writes:
> > eds@islandnet.com (Ed Seedhouse) wrote:
> >
o >>>: Didn't the NF House of Assembly originally approve the Meech Lake
o >>>: resolution and later rescind its approval?
. . . .  .
> >>It is
> >>not clear that Newfoundland, having one passed the accord, had the
> >>legal power to rescind.

> > Since the House of Assembly is, like every other provincial
> > legislature a "master of its own House", it can bloody well adopt and
> > rescind resolutions till the cows come home.

> Well in your mind maybe, as a famous person just wrote. :-)  Because the
> constitution is speaking of passing the accord in the 3 years, not that a
> provincial legislature has to agree for a full 3 years.

> In other words, when it's passed it's too late.  So Ed was right. 

I don't get that from my reading...
    http://vanbc.wimsey.com/~samuel/charter2.html#sect41.
41. An amendment to the Constitution of Canada in relation to the 
 following matters may be made by proclamation issued by the Governor 
 General under the Great Seal of Canada only where authorized by 
 resolutions of the Senate and House of Commons and of the legislative
 assembly of each province:

If a province recinds it's authorization, then the Governor General would no 
longer be authorized to issue the proclamation. On the other hand, If the 
motion had been authorized by Manitoba, it would have been a race condition 
between Newfoundland and the Governor General to get their declaration out 
first.

Once the GG declared the amendment, it would have been impossible for NL to 
recind anything .. You only have the explicit ability to recind *dissention* 
after proclamation of an amendment.
-- 
Stephen Samuel (604)876-0426 samuel@wimsey.com http://www.wimsey.com/~samuel
I finally understood that the derogatory termm "Indian giver" referred, not
to the Indians themselves -- but rather, to our treatment of the Indians.