Re: CHAT: "have a Canadian day"

John Cowan wrote:
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> Robert Hailman wrote:
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> > That's what makes Canadian TV so much fun. I wonder how much stuff they
> > edit out, because some people know something about Canada. Did you know
> > that most Americans don't know that Canada is the only nation to burn
> > the US capital to the ground?
>
> Which is why the War of 1812 was Canada's War of Independence ... from the U.S.
> Canada is also the only nation that a U.S. private army once invaded.
> (The Canadians won.)
I don't consider it to be a War of Independence, because in a War of
Independence, the country attempting to stay independant is the
aggressor force. In the American War of Independence, the US was the
agressor force, and they conquered land held previously by the British.
The War of 1812, as I see it, was a typical war involving one country
attemping to conquer another for it's own purposes. Canada had no War of
Independence, because British Parliment passed the British North America
act in 1867 declaring Canada to be an independant member of the
Commonwealth, a title it still holds today.

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Robert