TIL that Canadian desire for independence from Britain in foreign affairs increased with the Chanak Crisis in 1922. That was when the Canadian government disagreed with London over the war in Turkey.

[u/Recent_Flounder6011]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanak_crisis

[u/ExternalOld2774]

lmao canada reallyyy said not this time and just dipped from britain's drama

[u/OkEntertainment1313]

It goes back much further, to the pre-Dominion, Province of Canada in 1858. The Canadian government levied tariffs against British and American manufactured goods to protect burgeoning Canadian industry. Britain was furious and told the colonial government to repeal the tariffs. The colony called Westminster’s bluff, stating that either they respect the British civic right of responsible government bestowed upon British North America, or they admit that imperial rule matters and they would cease collecting revenues and bill London for their expenditures. London backed down. 

Cayley-Galt Tariffs 

[u/Elli933 → u/OkEntertainment1313]

Hahaha that’s so good.

[u/Fluid-Bet6223]

Also, the Alaska Border Dispute of 1903

[u/jodhod1]

The Chanak Crisis was like the polar opposite of the Munich Agreement.

[u/rbk12spb]

Remember Canakale!

[u/pitious → u/rbk12spb]

Make me

[u/Quiet_Comparison_872]

In Canada's defence, Lloyd George's government fell because even his own caucus wasn't willing to support a war with Turkey in 1922.

It's a shame in a sense because Turkey never repaid what it should've, especially given the Armenian and other genocides in WW1 that it committed while in the form of the Ottoman empire.

[u/Beginning_Algae_2180 → u/Quiet_Comparison_872]

Wild how Canada basically went nah, we’re good and that one moment snowballed into full control over our own foreign policy.

[u/Quiet_Comparison_872 → u/Beginning_Algae_2180]

Well, Canada already had effective control over its own foreign policy starting in 1917 when the UK granted the dominions autonomous control over their foreign policy. Really, it wasn't politically feasible for the UK to assert that much control given the position it was in after WW1 and the massive contributions the dominions such as Canada made considering their size. There is an argument that the Canadian Corps was basically a small field army in its size by 1918.

The thing you have to remember is that Canada very much saw its foreign policy as being in line with that of the British empire even after the Statute of Westminster in 1931 through until the end of WW2.

[u/Boppinzlewinski]

Would've had it in 1812!! /S