Why is Canada a separate country?
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Because the UK let colonizes become more and more independent and the Dominion of Canada is created in 1867. Canada and other dominions like Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa got more and more independence over time and the Statute of Westminster in 1931 establish them as coequal with the United Kingdom under the Crown.
The reason the dominions were created and got more independence was what was the will of the people there and accented by the UK government. If you look at what colonies became dominions and independent first it is clear that UK accepted the independence of colonies where you have people from Britain and another part of Europe in control and they later accepted the independence of countries where the one that would be in control what the native people of that country. So India and Pakistan is the first that gained independence in 1947 and it is followed by the majority of the colonies becoming independent states
Newfoundland, Irish Free State, India, Pakistan, and Ceylon has also been UK dominions but at a different time and the
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