Elijah Harper

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live 100% I went into watching old movies where we stayed in Red Sucker Lake A very famous politician, Elijah Harper, who is a member of parliament, brought a lot of good things to First Nations people.

He passed away a long time ago.

He's buried in Red Sucker Lake.

It had to go back to all the provincial legislatures to be ratified for this to occur.

It was ultimately defeated thanks to an indigenous MLA in Manitoba named Elijah Harper who did not give consent on the docket for it to be debated in the Manitoba legislature so it killed it right on the order paper.

So yes, he's a great hero for this but I think what's an overlooked detail of that is No other legislatures had put that in for debate by the time that this was allotted that this must be completed by.

So regardless of what would have happened in Manitoba, it was still going to be defeated by inaction by the other legislatures.

See, the thing was, the Meech Lake Accord required ratification by all ten provincial legislatures within three years, namely June 23, 1990.

So in June of 1990, Manitoba MLA Elijah Harper, a Cree member of the legislature, used procedural rules to block the accord from coming to a vote.

His reasoning? The Accord overlooked Indigenous people as distinct societies and ignored their constitutional rights.

That very same day, Newfoundland Premier Clyde Wells chose not to bring the Accord to vote in his legislature, citing concerns about provincial equality and the veto provisions making future reform too difficult.