Dougie93

none the less, if Donald Trump had the power of the Canadian Prime Minister, there would be no checks & balances to restrain him at all, the Canadian Prime Minister is effectively an elected dictator, all the MP's are cronies & sycophants, all the civil servants too, most significantly the RCMP, Donald Trump has been arrested and convicted of crimes, that would never happen in Canada, Justin Trudeau broke the law with impunity while the Mounties looked the other way, yet if you ever cross the Canadian Prime Minister, suddenly the Mounties will come after you with false charges, see; Vice Admiral Norman, talk about fascism

I was born here, my ancestor came here in 1757, it's a Dominion of the British Crown, I can live right across the border from America, my wife is Canadian and does not want to leave her family, I own property here, I still like Upper Canada, in summer at least, and Ontario now has the best legalized cannabis market in the world indeed, salvation is not by acts, but rather by faith alone the Nazarene is the sinner's friend

as if there are any functioning checks on the Canadian government ? all Donald Trump is doing is acting like a Canadian Prime Minister in America

HM has far more power than he ever employs, as all the Royal Prerogatives & Reserve Powers remain on paper, it's just that the House of Windsor has a policy of never invoking those powers, in fear of a revolt in the face of it, dating back to George V founding the House of Windsor and reforming the monarchy therein, in the wake of the Bolsheviks murdering his cousin Nicky and family, tho I would suggest that this deep seated fear is overwrought at this juncture, just like Donald Trump, it would simply take a King who was willing to push the envelope, test the limits. and the public would actually go along with it far more than the Windsor's surmise, because the masses are no longer democratic, the masses are now tribal, so all a monarch would have to do is side with the dominant tribe, and they would go to war for him, if it can happen in America, it could easily happen in the British realm, all it would take is a royal like Prince Andrew ascending to the throne, for example because one Royal Prerogative that the Windsor's decline to invoke, is that the monarch cannot be charged with a criminal offence, constitutionally, you cannot arrest the monarch, you cannot compel the monarch to testify and you cannot charge the monarch with a crime, pretty sure a King Andrew would have invoked that by now, and in actual fact, it's sort of being invoked by default, since how is it that Prince Andrew has not been charged for being a child rapist ? it's de facto even if not de jure at this point, because if he wasn't Prince Andrew, he'd be in jail by now, that Royal Prerogative is creeping, without the royal family having to invoke anything formally

the Fenians clearly won that media war, since Ian Paisley is cast unto the ash heap of history, never to be mentioned again, while Adams & McGuinness are practically folk heroes, thanks, O'Bono

ah, but after being press ganged by the Royal Navy at Liverpool, he declined to go on to Quebec, instead he decided to jump ship upon arrival at Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, going on to be a merchant captain of a schooner in the Triangle Trade, perhaps that is where I get my rebellious streak from

the Six Counties of the North is the Province of Ulster, the Loyalists of Ulster are the Orangemen, and in fact, they are the ones whom founded Canada, Sir John A. MacDonald, first Prime Minister of Canada, was an Orangemen, so was John George Diefenbaker, the Orange Order literally ran Canada, right into the 1960's, so not sure what you are getting so upset about, since clearly Canada is far from being a nefarious plot of the Romanists, but is rather one of the most Protestant states that ever was, for example, we in Ontario have only just got to buy beer in the corner store, this very year, and that is all about the Orange Order running this place for near two hundred years, my ancestor was a Lowland Scot, and he was brought to Canada to fight the French in 1757

as if Ian Paisley is some sort of Canadian paragon ? he was literally persona non grata in Canada, he was run out of Toronto when he came in 1982, but there was no violence, don't you know that there is a truce in Canada ? nobody fights the sectarian war here, not the Orange nor the Green

and in fairness to the GG, she's merely reflecting how the vast majority of Canadians view the situation, bearing in mind that the Commonwealth is not an alliance, the Commonwealth did not replace the Empire, the Commonwealth has no legal standing whatsoever, it's just a social club, so in fact, there is no bilateral alliance between the United Kingdom and Canada anymore, all alliances between Britain & Canada only run through Washington as the centre ; UKUSA & NATO, Britain & Canada were in fact the same country, right up until 28 March 1982, but upon the Canada Act 1982 receiving Royal Assent, Canada has been on its own, you see all these indignant Canadians now saying " we fought to defend Great Britain in the World Wars !" but they miss the part wherein Canada chose to end that relationship, forty three years ago, by its own hand

I would suggest that the majority of Canadians are confused as to the nature of their state, since the majority of Canadians present as nationalists, when in fact nationalism is the antithesis of monarchy, the concept that the House of Windsor in the fatherland, and the government in Ottawa is actually a sub national jurisdiction within, Canadians have spent decades voting against that, right up until it backfired in their faces the other day, when Washington read the fine print and decided that a Canadian republic does not in fact exist, within the context of the British Crown, nationalism is the IRA, nationalism is the FLQ, nationalism is the Khalistani Sikhs, and so nationalism is actually poison to Canada, and it has weakened the state to the threshold of chumming the waters, and as result, the sharks are circling round Canada now, there are no friends in geopolitics, only interests, and suddenly naive Canada is getting its comeuppance therein, Donald Trump did not make Canada into the 51st State, Canada made itself into that, like babes in the woods, and it's not as if Canadians were not warned. go right back the the election of 1988. when the opposition clearly and vociferously said ; making ourselves so beholden to the Americans ; this will come back to haunt us someday

a Scots German Empire to find a Northwest Passage, at the cost of many men Nec Aspera Terrent

even Ian Paisley would call you a kook at this juncture

most republics have a ceremonial President with no political authority. America is the only democratic republic which combines the Head of State with the Head of Government, but in actual fact, the power of the government in America is divided by separation of powers, wherein the Speaker of The House has control of the budget, unlike in Canada where the opposition does not have any influence as to how the money is spent, furthermore, unlike the Prime Minister of Canada, the POTUS has no authority to make laws, so you don't even know what you are talking about within the context of the two systems, even as an Ulster Orangeman, I find that to be a lunatic conspiracy theory, if/when the Vatican is running a country, you don't get Mark Carney, you get Francisco Franco, if there is any religious influence in Canadian politics, it is literally the opposite of that, since Canadians are by nature priggish Victorian Puritans

what daylight is there between the Liberals and the Democrats ? don't you realize that the Liberals adopt the Democrat party policies practically verbatim ? as written by Democrat party operatives whom the Liberals literally pay to be their advisers, Justin Trudeau just copied & pasted Barack Obama right down to the smallest detail, simplt replace "slavery" with "indigenous" and the two parties are exactly the same

this coming from the person who vociferously asserts, that the Government of Canada is a conspiracy being run by the Roman Catholic Church

oh good grief, the Prime Minister takes to the podium during a Royal Visit, and the crowd shouts "Elbows Up!" all due respect to Gordie Howe, but that's an utterly unserious battle cry bordering on ridiculous, never mind that it didn't even emanate from Canada, but was rather produced by the cast of SNL in New York, it's like something Americans would think Canadians would say; it's a mockery in fact like "Remember the Moose !" or "Maple Syrup Forever !" or some silly shit like that, it's life imitating South Park,

we already know what it looks like when Canada erases all that and replaces it with a made in Canada alternative, see, the amalgamation of the military into the sterile and meaningless "Canadian Armed Forces" in 1968, the once proud military which fought the Second World War was reduced to an international laughing stock, and even after Canada came to regret what it had wrought, the institution has never recovered, all of Canada's glory is confined to British North America 1867 - 1967, everything Canada has governed since it ceased to be British North America, has turned to shit, one can only cringe at the idea of what Canada would invent to replace the House of Windsor,

Canada is in fourth place, India was number one, Jewel of the Crown, then America, having the saved the British Crown in the darkest hour, then Australia, the Scots Germans of the South Pacific, then Canada; evacuate there in the event of extreme emergency, but nobody really wants to live in a frozen wasteland otherwise

that's the system you have now, as the Governor General is already the Viceroy in effect, she's simply an Inuit Viceroy instead of a German

the problem is not as simple as swapping out the head of state, since the entire Canadian constitutional and legal system is built on the Crown as its foundation, so a Republic of Canada would have to write and enact an entirely new constitution, and so would each of the Provinces have to as well, furthermore, a Republic of Canada would have no legal claim to these lands, so right off the bat, you can be sure that the First Nations would refuse to go along with it, but more ominously, Washington could invoke that this new Republic of Canada has no sovereignty at all, America's treaties recognizing Canadian sovereignty are only with the British Crown, which would be null & void

Donald Trump has far more respect and admiration for HM The King than Canadians do, his mother was Mary Anne MacLeod from the Isle of Lewis in Scotland, the Scots German Trump is famously Royalist

true enough, but that's no reason to be exclusively Canadian, half the country are immigrants, and you don't see them renouncing their dual citizenship, I maintain a policy of whatever the immigrants are free to do, I'll have some of that too, thank you

frankly indistinguishable from Americans, tho clearly most Canadians would be Democrats

I can come & go as I please, just like the next third world immigrant just fallen off the cabbage boat, it's not like "Canadian" has any meaning beyond a tax jurisdiction after all

what do you mean ? I'm holding three passports like a Neoliberal central banker in the 21st century, I'm a Citoyen du Monde, coming & going as I please, what is more modern than that ? who is daydreaming of old battles except the Canadian holding one passport swearing allegiance only to Ottawa ?