y the provinces and the accord was pronounced dead in 1990. Following the death of the Meech Lake Accord many people believed that separation of Quebec from Canada was imminent. The federal government set up the Charlottetown Accord, it was a package consisting of a 28-point constitutional proposals called Shaping Canada Future Together. All the premiers of the provinces signed but when there was a national vote the people voted "no". According to Dyck Quebec argued they did not get enough new powers and the people outside of Quebec argued Quebec got too many new powers. Even though the referendum was not legally binding government did not bother to brig the package to the legislature for ratification. With this last failure no more attempts at constitutional change for quite sometime. The people of Canada were growing tired of the issue on constitutional change and elected the liberal government on the promise that they would put the issue of constitutional change aside . In Quebec the opposite occurred, Quebec elected Parti Qubcois, a separatist party. In 1995 the leaders of Parti Qubcois, the Bloc Qubcois, and Parti Action Democratique joined forces and signed an agreement to ask the people of Quebec to vote on Quebec's 2nd referendum. They asked if people wanted Quebec to become sovereign, along with a offer to negotiate a new partnership between Canada and a independent Quebec. If a deal could not be made with Canada within a year "Quebec would unilaterally declare its sovereignty and expect recognition by other states, anticipating continued membership in the north American Free Trade Agreement". The liberal government tried to convince the people of Quebec to vote no to separation on a promise of changes in areas of "recognizing Quebec as a distinct society, some kind of veto over constitutional aments and some kind of decentralization of powers from Ottawa". The separatist narrowly lost the province wide referendum on the iss...
