he provincial premiers gathered together at Meech Lake in Quebec. The goal of this meeting was to negotiate a constitutional provision acceptable to Quebec (Canada Business, Current issues, 1997, PG.). The agreement that was a result of this collaboration was titled the Meech Lake Accord, which was approved two months after the onset of the meeting.
             In the Meech Lake Accord Quebec was given the status of a "distinct society" within the Canadian confederacy. In addition, all other provinces were granted substantial new powers in the areas of federal parliamentary reform, judicial appointments, and the creation of new provinces (Canada Business, Current issues, 1997, PG.). It was a requirement that the Accord was to be ratified no later than June 1990, by the federal parliament and all the provincial legislatures.
             Newfoundland offered opposition to the Meech Lake agreements, on the basis that Quebec was being granted far too much political influence. Newfoundland insisted that the agreement failed to provide the proper constitutional treatment to the I
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