To: Loyalist
It's kind of funny that the Canadians are British subjects.
5 posted on
07/02/2003 9:49:10 AM PDT by
Conservative til I die
(They say anti-Catholicism is the thinking man's anti-Semitism; that's an insult to thinking men)
To: Conservative til I die
Canadian are NOT British subjects.
Canada is a constitutional monarchy, whose monarch is Queen of Canada, though she is also Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
When the Governor-General gives Royal Assent to an Act of Parliament or the Lieutenant-Governor of a province does so to an act of a provincial legislature, they do so NOT as the vice-regal representative of a foreign Crown but as the vice-regal representative of the Canadian Crown.
Moreover, the Crown can only act upon the advice of the ministers of the government of the day.
Canada can abolish its monarchy through the process of constitutional amendment by unanimous agreement of the provinces.
In sum: The Canadian Crown is held not by a foreign monarch, but by a Canadian monarch who just happens to be foreign.
8 posted on
07/02/2003 10:00:40 AM PDT by
Loyalist
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