To this Savarkar retorted that the example of Canada was a wrong equivalence since the units there were already distinct and they were being called upon during the Durham Mission to decide on whether they wished to forge themselves into an organic state, federal or otherwise. But in the case of India, the states were already welded into one central unit. ‘The question before us today,’ he said, ‘is not to form out of separate and independent States or constituents a new nation or a federation or a confederation. India is already a Unitarian State.’
