Talk:Amendments to the Constitution of Canada/Archive 1

Archive 1

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The site this page links to for the specific amendments has been shut down. I've been so far unable to find these documents online. Thavron 19:26, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Well, that's a shame. Hopefully we can get some paper sources for this now. CanadianCaesar Et tu, Brute? 18:32, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Some of those pages are archived at web.archive.org. For example:

http://web.archive.org/web/20030528092623/http://collections.ic.gc.ca/aboriginaldocs/stat/html/s-constitution-1987.htm

See also Template:Wayback. --Mathew5000 08:47, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Changed the description of the 7/50 formula to read "legislative assemblies" rather than "legislatures" as that is the language in the Act and actually means something different. 96.54.195.105 (talk) 18:17, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Unilateral Amendments

The article only discusses 3 formulae: general, unanimous and those not affecting all provinces. However, my understanding is there are also 2 more: unilateral amendments by Parliament (s. 44), and unilateral amendments by provinces (s. 45). Shouldn't these be included in the article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by DanTrent (talk • contribs) 15:23, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

Unilateral amendments by Parliament (s. 44) are possible and should be listed. However, as provinces can only make amendments to their own constitutions, and not to the Constitution of Canada, s.45 is distinct. It may be worth creating a list of 'amendments to provincial constitutions' but many of these are not made explicit with reference to s.45 of the amending formula and are just ordinary legislative changes to the machinery of provincial government. 70.49.190.241 (talk) 14:04, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

The difficulty with that argument is that the provincial constitutions of Ontario and Quebec originate in the Constitution Act, 1867, since that is the Act which created those provinces. Both Ontario and Quebec have amended the Constitution Act, 1867 when they wanted to amend their provincial constitutions. For example, the Legislative Assembly of Ontario does not use the seat distribution and boundaries originally set out in the Constitution Act, 1867 for Ontario. Quebec has abolished the Legislative Council of Quebec, which was created by the Constitution Act, 1867. To the extent the Constitution Act, 1867 contains provisions of the constitutions of those two provinces, why can't they use s. 45 to amend it? Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 19:27, 23 June 2022 (UTC)