Second premiership of Pierre Trudeau

part of the Constitution of Canada

1980 G7 summit in Venezia, Italia

1980 plebiscite on Quebec's independence from Canada

1983 G7 summit in Williamsburg, Virginia, US

1982 G7 summit in Varsailles, France

1981 G7 summit in Ottawa, Canada

1984 G7 summit in London, United Kingdom

Patriation is the political process that led to full Canadian sovereignty, culminating with the Constitution Act, 1982. The process was necessary because, at the time, under the Statute of Westminster, 1931, and with Canada's agreement, the British Parliament retained the power to amend Canada's British North America Acts and to enact, more generally, for Canada at the request and with the consent of the Dominion. That authority was removed from the UK by the enactment of the Canada Act, 1982, on March 29, 1982, by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, as requested by the Parliament of Canada.