The Beginning and the End of the Meech Lake Accord

The Meech Lake Accord was a series of critical constitutional negotiations between the federal government, Quebec, and all the other provinces within Canada. Both the proposition and failure of the Meech Lake Accord had a devastating impact on Canadian federalism, including altering the federal government's relationship with Indigenous peoples, the provinces, and Quebec. This digital museum exhibit will show you excerpts of the intense negotiations through the perspectives of Quebecois, Western Canadians, Indigenous peoples, and the federal government. Exhibits will show how the federal government broke its promise and its duty to Indigenous peoples by excluding them from the constitutional negotiations of the Meech Lake Accord. Exhibits will display Indigenous peoples' responses to the Meech Lake Accord, including Elijah Harper famously holding an eagle feather for spiritual strength as he delayed the house debate on the Meech Lake Accord in the Manitoba Legislature. Some exhibits will describe the perspectives of Western Canadians and their desire to push for their own interests to be included in the Meech Lake Accords while combatting or diminishing Quebec's interests. Other exhibits will discuss how the failure of another constitutional negotiation would be a massive failure for the incumbent Prime Minister and federal government. Those exhibits will show that Quebecois citizens will publicly call for increased discussions on full Quebec sovereignty and separation from Canada due to the death of the Meech Lake Accord, and thus the start of the destruction of the historical scheme of confederation. There will be an exhibit that discusses all the perspectives of various media outlets throughout the country following the death of the Meech Lake Accord, which should give the viewer an incredible insight into the various perspectives throughout the country following its death. Finally, there will be an exhibit that points out the fear of the fall of the Meech Lake Accord due to its failure, with the potential of Quebec pulling out from federation at a time where the national debt was at its highest.