Canada, of its own free will, entered the war in September 1939 because it then realized that Nazi Germany threatened the very existence of Western civilization.
Britain still held power over the constitution - the British North American Act.
Until 1981. When granpapa Trudeau managed to get all of Canada’s premieres to agree on a new constitution and officially sever any official control Britain still had.
And that’s how we got our bill of rights / charter of rights and freedoms.
But we still have royalty on our money and the governor general is still technically the representative of the royals (and can still overrule just about anything with the authority of the crown.)
IIRC Canada declared war on Germany to get independence from Britain, but don’t quote me on that.
This account from 1946 says
https://www.historians.org/resource/what-was-canadas-role-in-world-war-ii/
You aren’t familiar with something that happened in 1867 that might have done that already, eh?
We became a confederated nation then.
A sovereign nation within the commonwealth.
Britain still held power over the constitution - the British North American Act.
Until 1981. When granpapa Trudeau managed to get all of Canada’s premieres to agree on a new constitution and officially sever any official control Britain still had.
And that’s how we got our bill of rights / charter of rights and freedoms.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_Act,_1982
But we still have royalty on our money and the governor general is still technically the representative of the royals (and can still overrule just about anything with the authority of the crown.)