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Re:The size of an empire cannot be larger than 1 month of tr... by jameshart on Friday January 06, 2023 @11:30AM (#34276777)
Canada was still subject to the legal authority of the UK parliament until 1982, and was certainly considered fully part of the British Empire until WWI
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Re:The size of an empire cannot be larger than 1 month of tr... by mymythisisthis on Friday January 06, 2023 @03:04PM (#34280220)
Canada was essentially independent since WWI.
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Re:The size of an empire cannot be larger than 1 month of tr... by bee_rider on Friday January 06, 2023 @03:05PM (#34280240)
I think the article was discussing actual facts-on-the-ground empires, rather than polite legal fictions invented to spare the UK from having to face their loss of global status.
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