Canada successfully continued its progress towards greater national
independence, by taking small steps to their independent victories, during the time in the Paris Peace Conference, the Chanak affair, the Halibut Treaty, Imperial Conference and Balfour Declaration, and the Statute of Westminister.
The First step Canada took was during the the end of a great war in the Paris Peace Conference.
As the war was ending, Sir Robert Borden believed that Canada should take its own place in the peace settlement. That is when, Borden insisted that Canada would sit at the peace conference in its own right, because Canada had sacrificed in war and deserve equal treatment. In the end, Canada was given two seats at the Paris Peace Conference and signed the treaty of Versailles.
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