The Death of Canadian Democracy and the Birth of Judicial Unilateralism Pete Vere and John Pacheco As Canadian university students during the early 90's, the current authors survived the failure of the Meech Lake Accord. The purpose of this constitutional accord had been to accommodate Quebec as a distinct society within Canada. In the aftermath of this failed referendum, we witnessed a divided country, the near-extinction of Canada’s oldest political party, and the re-birth of a nearly successful Quebec separatist movement. Never could we imaging that we would live through another event that so affected the psyche of our nation....