Another case of Canada's unwitting influence on world affairs:  Canada strongly objected to Britain's renewal of its alliance with Japan after World War I---largely to placate anti-Japanese racists in B.C.-- and, in the face of Canada's objections to the alliance, despite Australia and New Zealand's support for the renewal of the alliance, but with the US also objecting vigorously to the alliance for its own interests, Britain declined to renew the alliance, thus casting Japan adrift from its connections to western democracies, and on the road to militarism and fascism.