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      9 months ago

      Yeah, over a long enough timescale every country’s relations have their ups and downs. Recent generations have been quite close, though - Canada spent a lot of military lives supporting America’s misadventure in Afghanistan, for example. So it’s still quite the massive stab in the back as far as the currently living Canadians are concerned.

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      9 months ago

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada–United_States_relations

      At the outset of the American Revolutionary War, the American revolutionaries hoped the French Canadians in Quebec and the Colonists in Nova Scotia would join their rebellion. They were pre-approved for joining the United States in the Articles of Confederation. When northeastern Quebec was invaded, thousands joined the American cause