"Spiv" wrote in message
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"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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They did know how and went near to doing it, but the battle of the
Atlantic was won, so cheap and plentiful grain could be brought from
its colony, Canada, and the USA.

Canada was a British colony during WWII?

Yes. Independence in 1948, for most of Canada and Newfoundland in 1959.
The Canadian constitution was given back in 1982.


From
http://www.solon.org/Constitutions/C...stminster.html

An Act to give effect to certain resolutions passed by Imperial Conferences
held in the years 1926 and 1930.
[11th December, 1931]

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ENACTED by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and
with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and
Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the
same, as follows:--

1. In this Act the expression "Dominion" means any of the following
Dominions, that is to say, the Dominion of Canada, the Commonwealth of
Australia, the Dominion of New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, the Irish
Free State and Newfoundland.

2. (1) The Colonial Laws Validity Act, 1865, shall not apply to any law made
after the commencement of this Act by the Parliament of a Dominion.
(2) No law and no provision of any law made after the commencement of this
Act by the Parliament of a Dominion shall be void or inoperative on the
ground that it is repugnant to the law of England, or to the provisions of
any existing or future Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom, or to any
order, rule, or regulation made under any such Act, and the powers of the
Parliament of a Dominion shall include the power to repeal or amend any such
Act, order, rule or regulation in so far as the same is part of the law of
the Dominion.

3. It is hereby declared and enacted that the Parliament of a Dominion has
full power to make laws having extra-territorial operation.

4. No Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom passed after the commencement
of this Act shall extend or be deemed to extend, to a Dominion as part of
the law of that Dominion, unless it is expressly declared in that Act that
that Dominion has requested, and consented to, the enactment thereof.

etc

11. Notwithstanding anything in the Interpretation Act, 1889, the expression
"Colony" shall not, in any Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
passed after the commencement of this Act, include a Dominion or any
Province or State forming part of a Dominion.

Canada , Australia and New Zealand became self ruling nations in 1931
and most definitely ceased to be colonies on that date.