Conflict between Canada and England

The Canadian Prime Minister delivered a programmatic speech in parliament, sharply directed against England, which strives for dictatorship and violates the equal rights of the state peoples of the British Empire.

For Canada, the Prime Minister said, three possibilities now stand sharply before her: either the proclamation of unconditional independence, or annexation to the United States of America, or the working out of a perfectly clear and precise statute of autonomy within the bounds of Great Britain.

The Minister of Justice, having confirmed all this from the standpoint of law, added that Canadian citizens consider themselves a people tied to the English only by a bond of brotherhood, but will not allow the English anything more…

The whole conflict flared up because the English government sent the Canadian government various treaties for ratification (confirmation of their force for Canada as well), made without asking Canada. The Canadians were also greatly indignant that, for example, at the Lausanne Conference the English Foreign Secretary, Lord Curzon, appeared as the "representative of Canada."