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The real question is why did he correct you? Was there a communication error? Did he not understand what place you spoke of? Does he want Canada to be called Canada of America?
Does he have a problem with the use of 'the States'? or 'the United States' for that matter?
Other countries have states, but no other country has the word America in their name (that I know of.)
To complain about someone refering to the USA as America really just sounds like sounds like a person who wants to say something else ...
see my explanation for the use of America as a synonym for the United States in the link above.