The next senator should be Mr. or Ms. Abolition. This undemocratic, unelected institution, along with the monarchy are two of the most useless institutions that we inherited from Britain. The senate is based on the British House of Lords. It was put in place in Canada to watch over the common folk, represented in The House of Commons by MP put there by you and I.
Put this "boys club", who are friends of the PM ,out to do a real day's work. Most of them are wealthy. The senate cost us $60million a year. Be gone senate!!
What does it mean to be Canadian if we have pictures of a British Queen on the first few pages? We are one of only three major countries of the world that has a non-resident as head of state.Grow up Canada ,and allow a Canadian to be head of state. Some 60% of Canadians want to do away with the British Monarchy in Canada once the Queen dies. Start the process now or we will wake up some morning and Charles and Camilla will be our new head of state. Now, that's something to look forward too!!
I can't think of something more ridicules than to create a Canadian Monarchy. We are trying to get rid of the British Monarchy.Canada is not a country of Kings ,Queens, Lords, Dukes and Earls. This is British , not Canadian.The monarchy is a symbol of a class society. We want to build a just and common society for all Canadians.
Right on worldgirl! Discuss it with your friends. A poll was done a few years ago, and only 7% of Canadians even knew the British Queen was our head of state.Of course, if you haven't worked at the job for 56 years, then Canadians can't be fooled.
The checks and balances in our system was provided by the GG when the crisis happened in Jan, 2009. Do you think the Queen and the British Monarchy had any thing to do with it ? Of course not , she was out of sight in one of her Castles in Britain.Tranfer the paper work legally to the GG, who does ALL THE WORK NOW.
wHAT OTHER race or religion would put up with the anti-CATHOLIC MAKE UPof the British Monarchy? Plus having a monarch as head of state who resides in Britain.Get with it Canada; we are better than this.
So we move the Palace from London to Ottawa. Peter T. Smith, a columnist for the Telegraph Journal,Saint John,N.B had a column entitled: WE'RE NOT A ROYAL NATION- In his last two paragraphs he says;" The monarchy has become like the wallpaper at your grandmother's house: it's old, quaint and of a bygone era, and it's so much in the background that you don't even notice it until some pollster asks you about it. Then it's an "oh yeah" moment, follow by the thought that maybe it was nice once upon a time, but those days are gone."
The botton line is that we are not a British or Royal Nation. This is Canada and the only person who deserves to be head of state of Canada is a Canadian. We will always revisit this problem, until it is solved.
You state that Swend Robinson stated that" the Queen is not Canadian because she was born in the U.K." The point to make here is that Swend came to Canada from the U.S. ; became a Canadian citizen ,and worked, paid taxes and has lived here for many years.On the other hand the Queen, who is our head of state(on paper only), has spent 200days in this country in 56 years, at a cost of at least $300million to us.
You also state that that the Liberal candidate at the meeting was Italian and Roman Catholic. You probably know that A Roman Catholic can never be head of state of Canada as long as the British Windsor Family are the only ones allowed to hold that position.(Act of Settlement,1701). Is not this against the law, or is the Windsor Family above the law.
The majority of Canadians want a Canadian as head of state.The Monarchy belongs in history books.
We will have a different head of state than the U.S. Nothing will change, except the GG will be the head of state in a legal since.Monarchist's always try to make it scary, by telling us; they usually know better, that we would have the American system where the President is both head of state and head of govern.
One thing that can be said about the office of President of the United States is that it is held in high respect by Americans; the same cannot be said about the head of state office in Canada and the British Palace.
The well being of countries that you name, like Canada ,Australia, Norway etc. that have non-resident or resident monarch has nothing to do with the monarchy ,but are established countries where they had the resources and people that did the hard work. Monarchs sat in their castles and did nothing. In fact some of then were nothing more than cruel dictators. Why do you thing the power was taken away from them.Now they are nothing more than glorified nobodies.
Most of the nations in the third world were robbed blind by Britain, France. Holland, etc. Once they threw off the oak of Colonialism, then it will take a long time to get on their feet. Plus many of these countries have poor land ; lack of resources, education, etc.
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