Increasing number of Canadians want to reconsider ties to monarchy, survey suggests
Increasing number of Canadians want to reconsider ties to monarchy, survey suggests
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...
Queen Elizabeth was a good place to stop.
55What 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.
51602? Like, around the time of the founding of Québec?
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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.Anyone claiming they have no influence is being wilfully ignorant at this point
https://theconversation.com/the-queens-gambit-new-evidence-shows-how-her-majesty-wields-influence-on-legislation-154818 (yes, she's dead, but what applied to her will apply to him)16The monarchy does not affect my life in any way.
15Then you should have no problem if it was abolished.
18It 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!"
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Changing our relationship with the UK in this climate of increasingly grabby fringe groups is a huge risk.
We have bigger fish to fry.
14Indigenous 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.
11All for it, but only after proper negotiations with indigenous peoples of these lands, so it doesn't just become an excuse for further land grabs.
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6You 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.
5I 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.
4I imagine they do realize that but then follow that thought up with, "So why are we continuing with this...?"
25Not according to the article you posted.
Just over half of respondents, at 51 per cent, agreed with the statement that the monarchy in Canada is outdated, does not have a place in the 21st century, and “we have to get rid of it.” In comparison, 33 per cent said the monarchy is an important part of the country’s history.
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On the other hand, the number of people who believed the monarchy “remains a positive symbol for Canada” rose by four points, to 52 per cent from 48, compared to 2021 data.
0Just because a warplane has an ejection seat doesn't mean you HAVE to use it. It's just a pretty good option in some cases in order to save the pilot.
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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.
3A lot of people do, no different than people thinking the premier wields absolutely power as well. These people exist.
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Reconsider if they want, but the position is locked into the constitution.
3Constitutions can be changed.
13In 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.
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isn't largely just ceremonial at this point? I was unaware the monarchy was actually "involved". (dumb USA here)
2I 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.
2Ignoring 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.
1Imagine living in a system so shit that people want to return to monarchy
Maybe the free market is not so liberating after all, who would've guessed
1I’d like it gone but I’d also rather be British than American
1interesting
0This means war if such sentiments get out of hand.
-31Look who volunteered to die in the first wave.
12Such heroism as mine is common place in the UK. Only subjects of an empire can understand this.
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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.
2The USA does not even have a monarchy, so Great Britain has nothing to fear from them militarily speaking.
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