With being offered and accepting the severance package and the reason they gave you, you were terminated without cause. Really, a company does not need any reason to terminate-without-cause as long as it's not violating human rights legislation or is discriminatory in nature.
Employers, outside of the above mentioned exceptions, have the right to run their company as they see fit when it comes to non-unionized positions. If that means legally laying off good employees and replacing them with friends, that's really (as far as I know) perfectly acceptable if not a good business practice.
Probably their biggest mistake was giving you a reason at all.
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