‘”We Could All Have Been Canadians” and says that such a result would have been a more sanguine alternative to idealizing what our Founding Fathers actually wrought’
Oh yeah, that would’ve happened.
You jackass liberals (and Canadians and Australians and all the lily-white British enclaves): there would BE no “Canada” without the United States as is.
The damned British learned their lesson - never push too far or you lose it altogether. That is what happened with the “American” colonies to the south....they insisted on the GB way and ended up losing everything.
So they became nicer with the northern colonies, and then their other own-flesh colonies like Australia and New Zealand. They gave them what they asked. Because they didn’t want to lose everything as they had in the 1700s.
There would be no “Canada” per se without the US. Period. Unless they would actually fight for it, too.
Without a neighbor like the United States, Canada might have faced numerous threats from “imperialists” over the centuries.