Marie Michael Library

Title

Constitute!

Length

33:11 min.

File No

339

Format

DVD

Description

This video profiles the history of women's activism in constitution-making. The Ad Hoc Committee of Women and the Constitution changed Canadian history on February 14, 1981. Interviews, speeches, songs and images of that day in the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa are shown. The film looks at citizen engagement in democracy in Canada, Afghanistan, Rwanda and South Africa.