MONTREAL – Just over one year after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, a new poll suggests a growing number of Canadians believe it’s time to reconsider the country’s ties to the monarchy. Data re...
What seems likely to me is slowly changing things bit by bit. I don't think the UK would mind either, it's just a matter of spending time and effort (and money) making those legal changes.
The final constitutional change seems unlikely anytime soon. It's very unlikely that all the provinces will agree to play ball and get it done unless there was an urgent need to get rid of it.
It doesn't affect us day-to-day no, but honestly I like being part of a 'Commonwealth'. I like feeling like I have something in common with Australia, or New Zealand, or the UK, even if I've only ever been to the UK for a few hours.
Your family name (for most people, unless you're George Hitler) has no impact on your day-to-day, this to me seems like saying "We should just get rid of family names!"
The people who are being manipulated with this nationalist dog whistle see no value in being a member of the Commonwealth. Canada First and MCGA and all.
Greetings from the UK.
Please go for this. The more of you leave the "common" wealth, the less grasp they have, and hopefully they become easier to eventually completely be rid of.
Indigenous person here .... the monarchy is a complicated thing in Native Canada
On one hand most of us absolutely hate and despise the idea of a monarchy, kings and queens and all that garbage (personally I would love to see them removed from anything to do with government)
On the other hand, the monarchy is our linchpin on the government where many of our original agreements and treaties start and originate from. Many believe that in doing away with the monarchy ... it would give the government an opportunity to do away with many historic treaties and agreements from the past that were made with the monarch and not with the country. It's a whole legal debate that would be a huge headache for government/Native people/monarchists/anti-monarchists/etc
So in Native Canada ... it's split ... we would love to see the King leave ... but we also don't want to give the government a chance to step away from legal responsibilities. Argue what you want but whenever dramatic changes happen to laws regarding Native people .. historically, it's never been good for us .. and Indigenous Canada knows that by heart now ... we don't trust the Canadian government of any stripe to do anything beneficial for us ... we have to fight for ourselves all the time.
In theory? Sure. In reality, nope. No one is going to spend the political capital on this.
We'd still need an executive, even if only ceremonial. Getting consensus on that would be almost impossible.
IF we somehow managed to get to some sort of negotiating framework, we'd still need agreement from the feds and all of the premiers. You can bet that each of them will bring a laundry list of things they want to change in the constitution, and at least some of them will be 'poison pills' to kill the proceedings.
I don’t think most of those people who were questioned realize the monarchy is nothing but a figure and holds essentially no power, even though they do need to ratify stuff.
Okay I know that "I'm smarter than everybody" is popular on sites like this but you can't be serious in thinking that the average person thinks the King of England has real practical usable political power in Canada.
You really want the Monarchy to go out on a high note rather than continue until everyone is just sick of it. QEII was The Office season 6. Charles is The Office Season 7. You don't want to see what Season 8 brings.
War with Canada, though? Canada. I've genuinely never heard me or any other American on any political side have one negative thing to say about Canada, and we generally view them as our little brother no matter how frustrated and superior actual Canadians get about it.
The brits would be invading America's hat, it would be a war over the rule of the monarchy, and both sides being NATO members means NATO is not really a concern.
I don't think that would ever be a thing, but if it were a thing, I really wouldn't choose to be at war with anyone on US borders. Not even saber rattling. We're very paranoid, if that's changed at all it's gotten worse, and physically touching our borders will almost certainly draw aggro.
Plus, let's be honest, Canadians aren't brown enough to be ignored. We'd sell out Mexico faster than Canada simply because the cartels are too much trouble.
I think we have more important things to do then to change the name of an official. Cause ultimately we well still need a head of state. Governor General or President who really cares.
Ignoring issues it might cause with the commonwealth, it would be cool to just appoint our own monarch, like we do the GG. But I think that we enjoy privileges with the other commonwealth nations that we might lose if we did that.