Traduction de «Histoire de la Constitution canadienne » (Français → Anglais) :

The same principle is found in Belgium and in the American Constitution (since the XVIth amendment) and the Canadian Constitution.

The countries of the Union already form the greatest economic power in the world, but on its path to becoming a universal political body, the Union must not express its economic power by dominating the sectarian and blind ultraliberal market or by simply imitating the military hegemony of the United States, and these are temptations into which some European Prime Ministers are falling. What we should be doing instead is defending the values and the social and democratic achievements that form the best part of our history, and we should maintain a presence in the world as a factor for peace and for progress, in an action which, as Commiss ...[+++]ioner Solbes knows, must be a great deal more ambitious than the action presented today by the Commission.

It will ultimately have to have its rightful place as the preamble to a constitution, but that is a matter for our long-term institutional development.

What history will remember of this year 2000, which some people find too dull, is that it saw the advancement and affirmation of the idea of a European Constitution, backed by the majority of Members of this Parliament, which led, today, to the adoption of the Duhamel report.

Everyone here knows that Europe, its currency, its diplomacy, its security, its civilisation, its culture and its social model can only truly survive the splendid history of its peoples, but also the fruitless dissension between them, by becoming a federation of nation states with strong, coherent and respected institutions, enshrined in a European Constitution, towards which Mr Duhamel has paved the way.

Then, briefly, I will review the history of education reform in the province of Quebec - the history that has brought us to the very serious step of amending the Canadian Constitution.