Dominic Sandbrook

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On the Media · The Rest Is History · 1 Jul 2026 podcast

But the Americans are not anti-imperial freedom fighters.

I mean, they want to take the whole continent for themselves.

So here is the question that I think would puzzle me if I were American.

And it puzzles me that Americans don't discuss this.

It is this.

Canada exists, right?

And Canada is not a terrible place by any means.

Also, Australia exists, or New Zealand.

So when Americans look to Canada, I'm curious about what they think about this country that, you know, is still subject to the crown, remained, as it were, loyal in inverted commas to Britain.

Well, we know what Donald Trump thinks.

Yes.

We do know what Donald Trump thinks.

But Americans more broadly, I'm curious whether they think that Canada, how that fits into the language of liberty, the discourse that this was a tremendous triumph of freedom against oppression.

Because if that is the case, right, then presumably Canada is not truly free.

And people in Canada are leading the lives of helots, subject to the... To the yoke of the British crown.

The yoke of the British crown.

And obviously, no sane person thinks that, right?

So there is an alternative reality.

So my question would be...

Is it possible that events in the late 18th century could have played out differently and the United States might not have ever existed and British North America might now be united under the overlordship of Mark Carney?

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