Was the formation of the confederation a legitimate response or solution to British colonialism?

Confederation: a league or alliance, a group of confederates especially of states more or less permanently united for common purposes.

Canada's confederation was first formed with Act of  Union in 1840. The British had great reservations about this dramatic increase in Canadian autonomy and the paralleled decline in British colonial power.

The British solution to this problem was to unite the regions by the Act of Union By uniting the two regions they establish more power over their problems such as creating more representative form of government.

Although the talk about the confederation start in 1846 the confederation did not start until the July 1, 1867 that include Quebec, Ontario, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick because no political party in Canada had enough power to retain a majority for any extended amount of time until number of reformer and conservatives gather to create the Act of Union. 

• There were many factors that help influence the formation of confederation such as....
• Economical problems
• The United Stats army  
• The British army not being allies any more
• There would be better inter colony  would have better trade, military movements and transportation

The Maritime union that consist of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island were one of the last colony to join but in 1864 during the spring the Maritime had a meeting. With John A. McDonald at the meeting he persuaded the Martimes to join because of the chance of the surviving against the powerful foes