Pierre Trudeau-era Liberals gather to celebrate 37th anniversary of the Constitution

Familiar faces included former prime minister Jean Chrétien, Tom Axworthy, Monique Bégin, Judy Erola, and Marlene Catterall, among others.

Don Johnston, Laura Peck, and Jack Deschambault, pictured April 17, 2019, 37 years after, to the exact day, the Canadian Constitution was patriated in Ottawa on Parliament Hill. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

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BY Emily Haws

April 22, 2019

It’s a very odd feeling to realize you’re standing at the very place where history was made, but I guess that’s something that happens often when you work within the historic Parliamentary Precinct in Ottawa. Still, it was a...

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