10. Firmly rejects the allegations that the EU and the international community, expressing their support for the Ukrainian people's exercise of its constitutional rights, are encouraging violence;

I hope that these signals will prove genuine and will extend to other items on our agenda: respect for the principle of subsidiarity, express guarantees of respect for the primacy of national constitutional law, transparency in the Council’s legislative operations, recognition in the preamble of our Christian heritage, retaining the rotating Presidency or finding a satisfactory solution to the various problems caused by the unsuitable duration of each term, the elimination of terminological flights of fancy such as ‘Minister for Foreign Affairs’ or ‘Constitution for Europe’, the deletion or strict rationing of flexibility or passerelle c ...[+++]lauses so as not to cheat the system for revising the Treaties, and so on.

Women's human rights require strengthening under both formal and informal systems of tenure, and constitutional and inheritance law has a role to play alongside land law and institutions as well as family and marriage law.

Since 1982, there have been eight formal constitutional amendments: aboriginal rights in 1983; electoral representation, in 1985; the Newfoundland school system in 1987, 1997 and 1998; the rights of the two linguistic communities in New Brunswick in 1993; the Prince Edward Island bridge in 1994; and the Quebec school system in 1997.

When I compare it to the explicit, unequivocal, categorical, personal testimony before the joint committee examining Term 17, the Roman Catholic Archbishop, speaking on behalf of all the Catholic bishops of Newfoundland and Labrador, stated explicitly that the Roman Catholic Church in Newfoundland does not agree to the ceding of their present constitutional right.

We are now talking about a new phase in the development of our domestic constitutional law, since formal amendments to the Constitution are so difficult.