[rlmorel]

"...It’s also a fact that the provincials preferred to govern themselves and resisted attempts by Parliament to exercise their authority..."

I don't doubt that at all.

But wasn't that the whole point they made at the time, that they weren't represented, and that the distance both increased the level of bureaucracy and delay for immediate issues they could not get the Crown to make decisions on in any kind of timely matter, and that they had no say in the decision making process?

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Yes. As time went on they decided they needed to be free from the king so they could live like Englishmen.