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Primarily, it's about the United Empire Loyalists who left the newly-minted United States and founded Ontario in the 1780s (Ontario's motto is "Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet", usually translated as "Loyal she began, loyal she remains"). But interestingly, "Crimson" was also the codename for Canada in the 1920s US invasion plan for the British Empire called War Plan Red (the UK was "Red", India "Ruby", Australia "Scarlet" and New Zealand "Garnett"). 
Crimson in defeat, they halted Gathered lives and legacies in war-weathered hands and pulled Uprooted centuries where their names were braided in the soil Behind them the rattlesnake enjoined, driving them on across valley and stream, across mountains and seas to another shore where, Crimson at home they began again Crimson at home they remained.
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But actually, no, constitutionally not much has changed about Canada since then, aside from patriating the British North America Act and enshrining the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. As you pointed out, we're still a Commonwealth Realm, one of sixteen in the world.
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