I'm afraid I'm going to have to cheat a wee bit with this one, as my POD comes about five weeks before my 13th birthday.
The POD is that the Chalottetown Accord passed via referendum, rather than defeated as per OTL. Thus the constitution is reformed and Quebec signs it.
Just like in OTL, I was living in Edmonton at the time. Unlike in OTL, the air force base at Edmonton (CFB Namao) doesn't close in 1994 (Chretien doesn't become PM having lost the 1993 election to Jean Charest's Tories), so my dad's posting back to Cold Lake is delayed slightly. I start high school in Edmonton before moving back there in 1996, rather than doing all three years in Cold Lake.
Growing up, my politics aren't as heavily influenced by the Reform Party, as they wound up being much weaker than in OTL. (Their opposition to the Accord was a loss not a victory.) Nor are they influenced by my disgust with Chretien's Liberals, as they lost badly. (The CF gets it's new helicopters, there is no bill C-68, there aren't nearly as many fights between Edmonton and Ottawa...) I also don't get to curse at the Bloc Quebecois (who were also rejected following their opposition to the reforms) and at Quebec separatists in general as there isn't another sovereignty referendum in 1995.
The POD is that the Chalottetown Accord passed via referendum, rather than defeated as per OTL. Thus the constitution is reformed and Quebec signs it.
Just like in OTL, I was living in Edmonton at the time. Unlike in OTL, the air force base at Edmonton (CFB Namao) doesn't close in 1994 (Chretien doesn't become PM having lost the 1993 election to Jean Charest's Tories), so my dad's posting back to Cold Lake is delayed slightly. I start high school in Edmonton before moving back there in 1996, rather than doing all three years in Cold Lake.
Growing up, my politics aren't as heavily influenced by the Reform Party, as they wound up being much weaker than in OTL. (Their opposition to the Accord was a loss not a victory.) Nor are they influenced by my disgust with Chretien's Liberals, as they lost badly. (The CF gets it's new helicopters, there is no bill C-68, there aren't nearly as many fights between Edmonton and Ottawa...) I also don't get to curse at the Bloc Quebecois (who were also rejected following their opposition to the reforms) and at Quebec separatists in general as there isn't another sovereignty referendum in 1995.