Briefs, presentations, and speeches [ textual record]. - 1987 - 1990. - 10 cm of textual records

Scope and content: This series contains copies of briefs and presentations prepared by the New Brunswick Ad Hoc Committee and other organizations, such as the National Association of Women and the Law, the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women, the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund Inc, and the National Action Committee on the Status of Women all relating to the Meech Lake constitutional accord issue.

It also includes copies of addresses delivered separately by Premier Frank J. McKenna and a unnamed member of the N.B. Ad Hoc Committee on Meech Lake, as well as a few miscellaneous documents.

Notes:

Title: Based on contents.

Arrangement: File arrangement is chronological

1. Draft brief on Meech Lake / [by the New Brunswick Ad Hoc Committee on the Constitution?]. - [1987?]

2. Draft brief / [by] New Brunswick Ad Hoc Committee on the Constitution Fredericton Chapter. - [1987?]
Note: File contains 2 draft versions of a brief

3. Brief to the Special Joint Committee on the 1987 Constitutional Accord July 24, 1987 / by the National Association of Women and the Law. - 1987
Note: File contains 1 bound and 1 unbound copy

4. Brief to the Special Joint Committee of the Senate and of the House of Commons on the 1987 Constitutional Accord / [by] Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women. - 20 August 1987

5. Presentation to the Special Joint Committee on the Constitution / [by] Frank McKenna, Leader of the New Brunswick Liberal Party. - 25 August 1987

6. Brief on the 1987 Constitutional Accord / by the National Action Committee on the Status of Women / presented to the Special Joint Committee of the Senate and the House of Commons on the 1987 Constitutional Accord / by Louise Dulude, President of NAC, Nöelle-Dominique Willems, Vice-President of NAC, and Wendy Williams, Membe of the NAC executive. - 26 August 1987

7. Brief to the Joint Committee of the Senate and of the House of Commons on the 1987 Constitutional Accord / [by] Women's Legal Education and Action Fund Inc. = Fonds d'Action et d'Education Juridiques Pour les Femmes Inc. - September 1987

8. "Primer" on the Meech Lake Accord / by Linda Sliver Dranoff. - 18 October 1987

9. Brief, Women and the Meech Lake Accord / [by] Moncton Ad Hoc Committee on the Constitution. - March 1988

10. A brief opposing the Meech Lake Accord / presented by The New Brunswick Ad Hoc Committee on the Constitution Fredericton Chapter to The New Brunswick Select Committee on the Constitution. - October 1988

11. Presentation to The Select Committee of the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly on The Meech Lake Accord / on behalf of The N.B. Ad Hoc Committee on the Constitution (Fredericton). - [1988?]

12. Presentation? by N.B. Ad Hoc Committee on the Constitution, Part II of II, [198-?]

13. Address to the Gagetown Rotary / [by C. Anne Crocker?]. - 15 October 1988

14. Brief to the Select Committee on the 1987 Constitutional Accord / by the Jemseg Women's Institute, Joyce Todd, President. - 21 October 1988
Note: File includes the Jemseg Women's Institute resolution urging the Premier of New Brunswick not to ratify the Meech Lake Accord "in its present form".

15. Memorandum to First Ministers Conference / [by] Ad Hoc Committee of Canadian Women on the Constitution. - November 1989

16. A brief opposing the Meech Lake Accord / [by] The New Brunswick Ad Hoc Committee on the Constitution. - publisher's proof. - published in the UNB Law Journal, vol. 38, 1989

17. Brief of the New Brunswick Ad Hoc Committee on the Constitution to The House of Commons Special Committee on the proposed companion resolution to the Meech Lake Accord. - 1990
Note: File also includes letters to M. Jean Charest, Chair, House of Commons Special Committee from the N.B. Ad Hoc Committee

18. Introduction of resolution on the 1987 Constitutional Amendment and Resolution to authorize amendment to the Constitution of Canada / speech for delivery by The Honourable Frank McKenna Premier of New Brunswick. - 21 March 1990

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