Meech Lake Accord
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![Robert Bourassa, Premier of Quebec](/Images/godic/202501/26/Robert-Bourassa5658.jpg")
![Brian Mulroney](/Images/godic/202501/26/Mulroney5658.jpg")
![Pierre Trudeau was the Accord's first, and most prominent, opponent.](/Images/godic/202501/26/Pierre_Elliot_Trudeau-25658.jpg")
The Meech Lake Accord (French:Accord du lac Meech) was a series of proposed amendments to the Constitution of Canada negotiated in 1987 by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and the 10 provincial premiers. It was intended to persuade the government of Quebec to symbolically endorse the 1982 constitutional amendments by providing for some decentralization of the Canadian federation.