Canada is an independent nation? Yeah right, the Queen is still in charge of your military. BTW, as far as those loyal French militia members, I wonder how many of their present day members celebrate "Queen's Day" instead of "Patriots Day" when they were trying to get the US to help them back in the 1800s to break away from the British? Canada is the only country formed out of a corporation known as the Hudson Bay Company. I am not sure when they ever fought for their own independence, unless you were in Quebec of course. lol. BTW I love Canada, and I even married one, but facts is facts.