A conference that formally create the British Commonwealth. Allows Canada to become more independent from Britain. The report led directly to the legislative recognition of Dominion autonomy in the 1931 Statute of Westminster The British empire formally became the British Commonwealth The BNA remained because the provinces could not agree on an amendment, though this changed in 1982.
Summary
The Balfour Report, from the 1926 Imperial Conference, declared the United Kingdom and its Dominions "Autonomous communities within the British Empire, equal in status...and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Nations." Based mainly on the British Commonwealth's acceptance of the principles underpinning the autonomy of the self-governing Dominions, this document represented an important step in Canada's path to complete autonomy.