The European Parliament has formally consented to Canada's participation in the EU's €150-billion Security Action for Europe programme. The agreement is now fully binding, making Canada the only non-European country with preferential access to SAFE procurement.
Technically we didn’t really as we where not a country. We had to join cause the UK joined.
That’s WW1, bro.
Canada declared war in WW2 a week (to the day, iirc) after the UK. It was a deliberate political move by King, particularly due to the legacy of the Conservatives forcing conscription on Quebec after running on “no conscription” as a policy platform, permanently damaging the Cons electability in Quebec. By putting the view to parliament, and not whipping the Liberals to view fire declaring war, insulated the Liberals from political backlash from Quebec and asserted Canada’s independence as a nation (which plays well in Quebec, in particular, ironically.)
Holy shit, is Canadian history education this bad? Go to school.
It was when I went to school, can’t believe it has gotten better since then
Depends if you spent the class eating crayons or not.
Canada got control of its foreign policy in 1931. This statement is untrue for WW2.
Getting downvoted because history lol.
Wait, are you saying Auli is getting downvoted even though they’re right? Because what they are saying is NOT true for WWII.
They are just saying the UK pulled us into war when it was within their jurisidiction to do so. They arent passing any judgement on the valor or sacrifice of our forces.
Sorry if I’m still understanding.
We had the right to choose to join or not in WWII. The OP is saying we didn’t, right? That isn’t true.
Also because so many young Canadian men died in that war, so it’s hard to say “we didn’t” and it actually be true.
Tell that to all the young Canadian men who never got to grow old. Many of our highschools have huge war memorials b/c entire generation of teenagers who used to attend highschools - died in WW2.
Not WW2 officially. But we would always join to protect them.
“We went up the ridge as Albertans and Nova Scotians. We came down as Canadians!” Talking about Vimy ridge