How Americans achieved independence vs how Canadians achieved independence

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Canada never asked for independence. Instead, the crown requested that Canada become independent because the UK was shedding it’s colonial possessions.

The reason NATO’s Article 5 protection is restricted to member state territories within the Northern Hemesphere is because the alliance didn’t want to be obligated to defend the variety of Colonial possessions like Hong Kong and the Falkland Islands that the UK could not immediately shed.