The second event which boosted awareness of Manning, Reform, and the party's capacity to fight elections, was the Charlottetown Referendum campaign of 1992, one year before the 1993 federal election. The Charlottetown Accord was a package of amendments to the Canadian constitution, unanimously approved and endorsed by the Prime Minister and the Premiers. It included a variety of measure including constitutional recognition of Quebec as "a distinct society". While strongly endorsed by the First Ministers and most of Canada's business and academic elites, it was vigorously opposed by Manning and Reform as well as by former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Newfoundland Premier Clyde Wells, Manitoba MLA Elijah Harper (an aboriginal leader), and the Bloc Québécois in Quebec. Reform opposed the Accord on the grounds that it gave a much higher priority to Quebec's constitutional interests than those of the west and that its Senate reform provisions were weak and inadequate. The party's policy chief, Stephen Harper, prepared a broad sheet entitled "KNOw More" presenting the complete text of the Accord with its defects (from Reform's perspective) circled in red. Several million copies of the broadsheet were distributed door to door by Reform's embryonic constituency organizations and newly nominated candidates, giving them valuable experience in organizing the door to door campaigning required for election campaigns. On October 26, 1992 – referendum day – the Accord was defeated nationally, 54.3 percent of the voters voting No to 45.7 percent voting Yes, with a 71.8 percent voter turnout. The Accord was most strongly opposed in Quebec and the West, largely due to the efforts of the Bloc Québécois and Reform.