Brian Giesbrecht: If Canada Is Broken, Why Not Fix It?

Pedestrians cross Elgin Street in view of Parliament Hill in Ottawa, in a file photo. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick

Commentary

Any suggestion that we should consider reopening Canada’s Constitution to solve our increasingly serious problems usually evokes snorts of derision and eye-rolling. The last attempts—Mulroney’s failed Meech Lake Accord in 1990, and Charlottetown in 1992—left the nation with constitutional fatigue. Those failures also left politicians understandably gun-shy of ever opening up that Pandora’s box again.