You are badly misinformed.  The vote in Manitoba in 1990 was not a vote on the Meech Lake Accord. It was a vote to suspend the rules of the Legislature in order to cut short public hearings on the Accord and to expedite a vote on the Meech Lake resolution. To suspend the rules of the Legislature, the consent of every MLA is required. That is how Elijah Harper was able to defeat Meech Lake.  He postponed the holding of a vote on the resolution until the 3-year ratification deadline had expired.  Had a vote on the resolution been held, it would not have required the unanimous consent of members. A simple majority would have sufficed.