Mike
Just read the Canadian war history.
Poor buggers suffered from the British not accepting they were a separate nation even more than the Australian experience. The British attempted to interfere in the running of the country, deployment of forces and the manufacturing industry without regard to Canadian national interests. At least King the Prime Minister stood up to them as much as he could unlike Menzies, the Australian Prime Minister, who actually moved to London for months to become a yes-man at the War Cabinet table.
It was ironically fortunate the Japanese gave us an alternative battle-field and the much more benign and progressive American umbrella defending our own shores rather than providing gun-fodder for European operations in debacles such as the Greek campaign or the Canadians at Dieppe.
Nothing about the war was good but the bottom line is always self interest and who can blame the British in desperate times if they can intimidate, con and lie to subservient Dominion governments (and the Americans) to save their own hides. None of those Dominions was ever in a last ball of the last innings situation as they were after Dunkirk.
Lang
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