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On June 10, 1791, the Constitutional Act was enacted in London and gave Canada its first parliamentary constitution. Containing 50 articles, the act brought the following changes: The Province of Quebec was divided into two distinct provinces, Province of Lower Canada (present-day Quebec) and Province of Upper Canada (present-day Ontario).
Canada's constitution has roots going back to the thirteenth century, including England's Magna Carta and the first English Parliament of 1275. [19] Canada's constitution is composed of several individual statutes. There are three general methods by which a statute becomes entrenched in the Constitution:
The word patriation was coined in Canada as a back-formation from repatriation (returning to one's country). Prior to 1982, power to amend the Canadian constitution was held by the Parliament of the United Kingdom (subject in some respects to request and consent from Canada); hence some have felt that the term patriation was more suitable than the term repatriation (returning something).
The term "Dominion of Canada" was used in some subsequent constitutional amendments, such as the Constitution Act, 1871, but the term fell out of use in the 1950s. In the final British statute relating to Canada, the Canada Act 1982 which achieved Patriation, only the name "Canada" is used.
The Constitution of Canada is a large number of documents that have been entrenched in the constitution by various means. Regardless of how documents became entrenched, together those documents form the supreme law of Canada; no non-constitutional law may conflict with them, and none of them may be changed without following the amending formula given in Part V of the Constitution Act, 1982.
Canada Act 1982 (1982) Meech Lake Accord (1989) Beaudoin-Edwards committee report (June 20, 1991) Report of the Bélanger-Campeau Commission on the Political and Constitutional Future of Québec (March 27, 1991) Allaire Report (January 28, 1991) Report of the Citizens' Forum on Canada's Future ("Spicer Commission"), 1991
The British North America Acts, 1867–1975, are a series of acts of Parliament that were at the core of the Constitution of Canada. Most were enacted by the Parliament of the United Kingdom and some by the Parliament of Canada. Some of the acts were repealed in Canada by the Constitution Act, 1982. The rest were renamed the Constitution Acts ...
The Saskatchewan First Act (2023) s. 90S.1 of Constitution Act, 1867 and s. 3.1 of the Saskatchewan Act: Added Section 90S.1 to the Constitution Act, 1867, and Section 3.1 to the Saskatchewan Act, which provide that Saskatchewan has autonomy with respect to all of the matters falling under its exclusive legislative jurisdiction.