I understand that there has always been a debate, as Joey Smallwood once pointed out, over whether it would be historically and constitutionally as correct to say that Newfoundland absorbed Canada, or took her over, as it would be to say that Canada absorbed Newfoundland.
Je crois savoir qu'il y a toujours eu un débat, comme l'a fait remarquer un jour Joey Smallwood, quant à savoir s'il serait aussi correct, du point de vue historique et constitutionnel, de dire que Terre-Neuve avait absorbé le Canada, que de dire que le Canada avait absorbé Terre-Neuve.