Mr. Speaker, the British Columbia legislature has ratified by unanimous vote the nine premiers' Calgary declaration on Quebec's status as a unique society within the Canadian federal system.
The B.C. legislature, to secure unanimity, also cited several areas of prime concern in B.C.-Ottawa co-operation. These additions do not legally derogate from the ratification of the Calgary declaration.
While not a formal amendment of the Constitution, the Calgary declaration when ratified by the nine provincial legislatures will acquire its own constitutional legal quality of which judicial notice may be taken.