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Usage of the phrase Dominion of Canada was employed as the country's name after 1867, predating the general use of the term dominion as applied to the other autonomous regions of the British Empire after 1907.
The Peace Tower dominates the central section of the Canadian Parliament Buildings in Ottawa, Ont. Robert Frerck/Tony Stone Worldwide. Canada is a federal parliamentary democracy. Once a colony of Great Britain, it became independent in 1867 through the British North America Act. Provisions of this act made it necessary for the British Privy Council to approve any amendment to the constitution. In 1982 the act was amended and renamed the Constitution Act (also known as the Canada Act).