What was extraordinary about the Meech Lake Accord was that it was not at all judged or defeated on its merits; it was judged and defeated on the process. There was agreement on the substance of the Accord. That became a little frayed near the end, but I believe that it was never really the substance of the Meech Lake Accord that was rejected. It was instead, the image of these men in suits meeting in secret to decide the nation's future. And what is interesting about that, is that for years that was the way those decisions were taken. So it wasn't that a new practice -- a new distasteful practice -- had developed, it was that an old practice became distasteful.
