In 1867 Canada was heading down the road of autonomy, in 1931 Canada gained further independence from the empire by negotiating and signing the Treaty of Westminster. But within a period of a few short years of moving away from one empire we just backed into another one. As many of us know today Canada is known to many as an American satellite state. How did this happen, how did a country looking to gain greater autonomy …showed first 75 words of 1824 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1824 total…to free trade agreements. The authors of Ambivalent Allies used the example of Sweden as being a country who managed to stay independent but I think for Canada it was a little more difficult to do this. As it stands right now I don’t see any way it would be economically possible for Canada to gain greater economic freedom from the United States without a huge blow to our economy or a trade war.