The curriculum you may have seen may typically paint the US as being the single-handed victor to a righteous battle, as the trend goes, but they missed a lot in their summaries.

I'm not saying that's not true. But it's equally unfair to say that Americans weren't contributing to the overall war effort until 41/42 when we entered with troops. the soviets and UK in particular would absolutely have collapsed if we weren't involved. Also.... I can't find anything indicating the the US demanded UK patents, and certainly not all the patents.

What I am seeing (and what matches what I've seen before,) is that there was a mutual transfer of technologies that were largely strategic in choice. it was definitely uneven- some of it was a simple matter that we needed to know how to build the stuff you all wanted. Can't exactly make torpex without the formula for torpex, right?

I suspect your curriculum was every bit as biased as mine. Which is the normal for history class. most places gloss over the, ah, troublesome, aspects. Germany is one of the very few places I know of that makes an active effort to not.

We became a confederated nation then.

A sovereign nation within the commonwealth.

Britain still held power over the constitution - the British North American Act.

Until 1981. When granpapa Trudeau managed to get all of Canada's premieres to agree on a new constitution and officially sever any official control Britain still had.

And that's how we got our bill of rights / charter of rights and freedoms.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_Act,_1982

But we still have royalty on our money and the governor general is still technically the representative of the royals (and can still overrule just about anything with the authority of the crown.)

I thought if this quote so many times with the long battle for the environment. Finally it seemed with Biden, we were there. We tried so many things with ignoring the problems we were creating, buying our way out of them, hiding them, pretending they weren’t real, sending our lead in renewable to China, we exhausted all the possibilities. Finally people realized they can’t hide da in the sand, finally we even got manufacturers to face the truth, finally we were focussed on building industries and supply chains, good jobs for the economy of the future while making the world a better place.

Then we tear it all down over what seems like personal spite. People really think the industries of the 1950s will save them and decided to throw away the industries of the 2020-2040s. Resource extraction and exploitation will save us over high value manufacturing