HIS102Y1 Lecture : Summer 2011

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assumed that foreign policy was a federal matter. neither level (federal nor colonial) was assigned foreign policy as it was assumed that britain would do it. presumed that canada needed to be only an independent colony - but still a colony. canadians would rise above their existing differences. would establish something that was better than that. didn"t happen: new nationality was still abstract, vague. Canada and the north atlantic triangle" the british empire. by the late 19th century 25% of the world"s land mass and population was in british hands. the sun never sets on the british empire . it was part of the belief of english canada in themselves. they thought they had an obligation to make the rest of the world as superior. it had no alliances - there was no need. diplomatically britain existed as a state of splendid isolation".

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