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Heh. Sorry. I do get a bit touchy on the subject when I strongly suspect people giving their opinions to be woefully uninformed.

Technically, since Canada is still part of the Commonwealth, to this day it doesn't have independance from Britain.

In reality, Canada didn't gain independance from Britain until much later, when they finally repatriated the canadian constitution.

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Back to the years near the American Revolution..

After the US won the revolutionary war, the loyalists (technically american colonists who wanted to remain loyal to the Crown) moved north and reestablished themselves, in some sort of uneasy peace with New France. Shortly thereafter, they sorta annexed New France (at the time, France was going through it's own revolution, and really couldn't spare anything to help it's colony), which gave "birth" to Upper (nowadays Ontario) and Lower (nowadays Québec) Canada. And that was the foundation of what is now Canada.

What I was refering to as "offered US aid" was during that time. The US, feeling they sorta owed a debt to France (and by extension, New France) reluctanctly offered aid to the french colonists against the loyalists. I say reluctanclty because, for valid reasons, they sorta didn't really want to get involved in a war with the Brits once again. However, their help consisted in offering that Québec would become a state, and the leaders of New France declined, and then went on to lose against the loyalists, due (as I mentioned above) to events happening in France.

To this day, some Québec separatists believe that refusing the american offer was a mistake, but that is a point on which I disagree. As much as Québec is a non-fit in Canada, it would have been and be even worse in the USA.

Technically, you'd have to say that what is now known as Canada invaded french territory. And I know for a fact that that did happen.

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