moved:
Motion No. 88
That Bill C-20, in Clause 3, be amended by adding after line 28 on page 5 the following:
“(3) No Minister of the Crown shall propose a constitutional amendment to effect the secession of a province from Canada unless the amendment provides that, where there has been a clear expression of a will by the population of a municipality in the province, who have cast fifty percent plus one vote of the votes cast in a referendum in the municipality, that the province not cease to be part of Canada, the territory of that municipality shall continue to be part of Canada if (i) the territory of the municipality is immediately adjacent to the territory of another province; or (ii) the territory of the municipality is part of an unbroken chain of municipal territories in each of which there has been a clear expression of a will by the population of each municipality, who have cast fifty percent plus one vote of the votes cast in a referendum in the municipality, that the province not cease to be part of Canada, and the territory of at least one of the municipalities is immediately adjacent to the territory of another province.”
Motion No. 89
That Bill C-20, in Clause 3, be amended by adding after line 28 on page 5 the following:
“(4) For the purposes of subsection (3) “municipality” includes a village and a reserve as defined in the Indian Act.”