Talk:British North America Acts

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The following text is from Constitution Act, an article which now redirects here. Please merge any relevant information into this article as appropriate. Rossami 22:40, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)

This act has essentially functioned as a Canadian constitution ever since being passed by the British Parliament in 1867, technically becoming a law when Queen Victoria gave her Royal Assent. The Act gave the new Canadian confederation a good deal of internal autonomy; however, final authority in many matters, especially judicial ones, remained vested in the Crown. The Statute of Westminster 1931 gave more authority, and essentially made Canada fully sovereign, with a notable and anomalous exception -- the document serving as its constitution was in fact the parliamentary act of another country.

Any change to this was delayed by interprovincial disputes and the ongoing language issue that was at the heart of some of those, so the true patriation of the Canadian Constitution was to wait for the Constitution Act, 1982.

• Actually, the idea that Constitution Act, 1867, currently the most important law in the nation, should be merged into an historical overview of some statutes, was ridiculous from the outset; now that that wrong has been righted, there's no need to merge the above material. CanadianCaesar 23:08, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Are the two 1949 acts cited with commas in Canada? Kurando | ^_^ 08:29, 11 April 2006 (UTC)