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King Charles’ coronation: Should Canada become a republic?
By Philip Resnick VANCOUVER©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Jimizo
Would they be better off as a republic? Would this affect Canada joining your Canzuk idea?
What do the polls say ( I’m not familiar with the biases of pollsters in Canada) . Are people that arsed about it that it’s worth calling a referendum?
This is a problem I see with the people calling for the abolition of the monarchy in the UK. It’s easy to attack the ridiculousness of having a hereditary head of state ( even supporters of the monarchy are forced to admit this ) but it’s more difficult to propose an alternative. In the UK, the go to line is ‘So you want President Tony Blair?’ for some reason. Very strange but perhaps a symptom of those against not making a clear and practical enough argument.
Spend more time explaining the nuts and bolts of the alternative rather than just shooting fish in a barrel
wallace
Awa no Gaijin
how long did you live in the UK?
wallace
It can only be decided by Canadians in a referendum.
Aly Rustom
That is a good question. I doubt it.
I think so. If Canada is no longer part of the Commonwealth but the other 3 are. But if the UK gets rid of the monarchy and all 4 become republics then it is still possible. Or they could all be absorbed by the US. Anything is possible.
Last time i was in Canada was 2019. I don't know if the ascension of Charles makes a difference, but the impression I get from Canadians is they really want to distinguish themselves from the US, which is why I'm guessing they are not really that interested in becoming a republic.. Just my impression..
Anonymous
Well, there are United Empire Loyalists who like to trace their ancestry back to “loyal” pre-(Revolutionary)war America…
Then, there were my ancestors who, although once residents south of the border, simply wanted cheap farm land …
TrevorPeace
@Aly Rustom, thanks for visiting. And yes, we most of us don't like being thought of as 'Americans' even though we share the continent. I used to like visiting the US, but for the past 20 years as I've watched their society disintegrate I've avoided it like the plague.
wallace
I want elected leaders in all positions with instant recalls when they forget the people they represent.
Simon Foston
Ego Sum Lux MundiToday 02:15 pm JST
To all intents and purposes Britain is a republic already. The King might be there as the symbolic head of state but actual power rests with the leader of the party with a parliamentary majority, i.e. the prime minister.
Aly Rustom
Should Canada become a republic?
No. It shouldn't.
It should form a Supranational Union (CANZUK) with OZ, NZ, and the UK.
Closer ties to the Commonwealth is a better idea than republicanism.
Eastman
good questions.
maybe good idea to ask canadian citizens in referendum?
Lord Dartmouth
Canada would not be Canada without the monarchy and the British connections. If Canadians really want to be like Barbados - another boring republic, with a 'head of state' who no one has heard of, go for it, but I'm sure they'll stay on board.
ushosh123
What is the difference anyways. I think Canada has more pressing issues.
ClippetyClop
In the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, if you had to choose who to be colonized and conquered by, you'd choose Britain or France, maybe the Dutch. You certainly wouldn't choose the religious plunderers of Spain or Portugal.
The British allowed colonists set up governments and policies they felt were most beneficial to them.
The 56 member Commonwealth of Nations, of which Canada is a part of, still exists because the institutions set up by the British are still in use by those countries. No other imperial power has ever been able to do deconstruct its empire and maintain relations in such a way.
Could you imagine Czechs debating having pictures of Russian leaders on their banknotes in 2080?
Desert Tortoise
If Russia manages to conquer Ukraine that scenario could be realistic. Just saying .....
Aly Rustom
Trevor-
The pleasure is all ours! One day, we hope to be able to move there!
I went to college in the US, and every time I am in Canada, my frat brothers ask me to drive down to hang out and party with them, but I always reply that they are welcome to visit me up north.
Moonraker
Funny that. In Britain they are often regarded as German interlopers who had to change their name because of it. The English have had Scottish royals imposed on them too, in the 1600s, and the whole stinking edifice was Viking French in the beginning and didn't even speak English for centuries. Only the most ardently brainwashed imagines they are "one of us". The real question is whether Britain should become a republic. Canada is welcome to them all in their entirety, if they need them to be Canadian.
1glenn
The real absolute monarchs are Kim, Xi, and Putin. Britain's monarchs are just for show.
master
My word. Someone get this fella a history book, stat.
Moonraker
As Engels writes: “The English bourgeoisie are, up to the present day, so deeply penetrated by a sense of their social inferiority that they keep up, at their own expense and that of the nation, an ornamental caste of drones to represent the nation worthily at all state functions; and they consider themselves highly honoured whenever one of themselves is found worthy of admission into this select and priviledged body, manufactured, after all, by themselves."
Desert Tortoise
Still living in the past ....
Moonraker
How about we could always choose a random citizen to be president for a year or two, like with juries. Of course, they would have no power to interfere in government on their own behalf, like the present monarchs can. Might even be able to choose most politicians like that too.
Yrral
Wallace,you was born under the crown, Canadian were colonist who fled colonial America to live under the crown
Ego Sum Lux Mundi
Never mind Canada, Britain itself should be a republic.