Dancing Around the Table Part One

Name: Dancing Around the Table Part One
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 57 min
Cast: Pierre Nadeau, Pierre Elliott Trudeau

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StarringPierre NadeauPierre Elliott Trudeau

DirectorMaurice Bulbulian

NR 57 minDocumentary

Part of Dancing Around the Table

Plot

Dancing Around the Table Part One provides a fascinating look at the crucial role Indigenous people played in shaping the Canadian Constitution The 1984 Federal Provincial Conference of First Ministers on Aboriginal Constitutional Matters was a tumultuous and antagonistic process that pitted Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau and the First Ministerswho refused to include Indigenous inherent rights to selfgovernment in the Constitutionagainst First Nations Inuit and Métis leaders who would not back down from this historic opportunity to enshrine Indigenous rights The conference was Pierre Elliott Trudeaus last constitutional meeting before he resigned and the process was handed over to his successor Brian Mulroney

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