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Diana's death must be the third most popular conspiracy-theory right after 9/11 and JFK.

The role of the GG in countries such as Canada, Australia, NZ etc is similar to that of presidents in republics such as Germany, Hungary, Italy and numerous others were the position of presidency is largely a ceremonial role. In the Australian republic-referendum 20 years ago republic did not lose because people would love the monarchy so much but because people did not like the kind of republic they were offered whereby the GG would only become president.

If we compare Canada and Australia as rlation to the USA and the UK one could say that Canada is more inclined to the USA 90% compared to being inclined to the UK. Obvious Geographic reasons really despite Canada being a Commonwealth country. I guess a lot of Canadians don't follow nor are even interested in British politics and why should they anyway as it has nothing to do with them. In Australia it is definitely the other way round. They really are a British outpost down under. Whatever goes on in the UK is well-known 10000km away on the other side of the world.

Could it be said that the likelihood that Trump is removed from office by this current impeachment-process is about 0.1% based on that there seems to be no plan B within the Republicans preparing for a possible primaries or if such an unlikely event happens that Trump is kicked out would Pence be an automatic Republican candidate?

I guess in Winnipeg there is far more interest in hockey than in Atlanta or any other southern US-city.

If Canada, or Australia and New Zealand for that matter, were ever tou turn into a republic it would only mean that the office of the GG would be changed that to the president.

I kind of have wondered why do a lot of countries agree to have a foreigner as their head of state but apparently the majority of people in those countries either support such an arrangement or don't consider it big enough a deal to kick a fuss about.

If the UK ever decided to become a republic, and therefore obviously needing to change the name of the country, could Canada, Australia, New Zealand and a number of other countries where the British Monarch is the head of state of those countries too keep the British Monarch even if the institution ceased to exist? Would all those countries be forced to become republics as their head of state would exist no longer?

3 planets or 7 planets, it doesn't make any difference since all that is bullshit anyway. The third worlders are never told that we would need so and so many planets if everybody in the world bred like they do.

We in Finland are told by the greenie-lefties how we would need 3 extra-planets if all the people in the world consumed like we in Finland do. The sensible people reply to that if the rest of the world reproduced at the rate how the Finns reproduce we would need half a planet. In Northern countries such as Finland, and surely Canada too, unless you go live in a cave and eat snow in winter you are unlikely to come at the top of the calculations low your carbon-footprint is. I don't drive, I have given up flying a long time ago and I haven't produced children to this world. Yet I assume my carbon footprint is higher than almost anyone living more to the south who has done all those things.

In how many ridings did the winner receive less than 50% of the votes? Can't this be corrected by having a two-phase election in which in those ridings where nobody gets over 50% there would be a run-off between the two top candidates?

The conventional wisdom of winning elections from the centre-ground seems to be reversed. Nowadays you must belong to a fringe to have a hope of winning elections hoping to fool enough people from the centre to vote for you. Imagine if a sane person entered the Democratic-race. That person would stand no chance among Warren, Harris, Sanders.

In the forthcoming British election there's really only two alternstives: If you want Brexit there's the Brexit-party and if you don't want Brexit there's the LibDems who have campaigned for revoking the article 50 which means canceling the outcome of the referendum because it was advisory and therefore non-binding. You can trust that both of these parties will stick to their policies. Both the Tories and Labour are untrustworthy from either leave or remain point of view. Some people say that in parliamentary elections there are also other issues but in this election it is 99% Brexit. Actually, this should be an extra-election instead of electing parliament until perhaps late 2024. In five years time things may have changes a lot and it would be good if there was a normal election sooner.

I think climate-change activists who are serious about their concern are doing themselves a disservice to keep that silly Swedish brainwashed child as a mascot for the cause. Especially as she has travelled across the world to spread her message even though in today's possibilities you can send your message online to the whole wide world without moving anywhere. She travelled by boat to America and the crew who helped her flew back home. Remember, flying is a no-no. This whole Greta-thing how uncritisizingly the MSM views it is another nail in the coffin in the credibility of the MSM.

I can understand some of the arguments people have for FPTP but perhaps it is because I am European where PR and coalition-governments are the norm I find it strange how people in a country like Canada seem to have some sort of an allergy towards the idea of coalition-governments. Yes, PR means coalition-governments which means horse-trading like if you let us do x we will let you do y etc but do you think that is worse than having a system where 35% of the votes translates into the majority of the seats as happened in the British election in 2005. I expect the forthcoming British election to produce an even more outrageous result concerning the share iof the votes and the amount of seats for each party.

Now they finally got an early election set for Dec 12th.

So, not gonna happen on Oct 31st. Johnson wouldn't be blamed for failing to take Britain out as he has been frustrated by a remoaner-Parliament if only he hadn't boasted so loudly and confidently that he was going to do it. Now that it's not happening it makes him look very foolish indeed.

It has been said that monarchy is a system which doesn't work in theory but it works very well in practice. Therefore countries which Still have monarchies are quite pleased with that system of government.

You can entertain yourself by calculating how the seats would have gone if there had been PR instead of FPTP. However, had there been PR people would probably have voted differently as in FPTP people try to avoid wasting their vote and if need be vote tactically.

Why should you Canadians have any allegiance to an old woman who lives across a wide ocean?

If Hillary had won we would be in the middle of ww3 right now.

Federal states usually have a second chamber. Some unitary states do as well but in their cases I truly don't understand the purpose of a second chamber. The most outrageous example being the British House of Lords. If that institution didn't exist nobody today would come up with an idea to establish it.

What is the smallest geographic size of a riding in the Canadian election? I guess a couple of blocks in Toronto. Meanwhile in the north a riding consists of an area the size of France or even bigger. Canada seems to be very divided. The West looks like a one-party state as the conservatives polled 60-70% when as in the East they are not strong at all. Then, of course, there is Quebec.

Is it true that Trudeau's party lost the popular vote but remained the largest in terms of seats? He was therefore saved only because he broke jos election-promise to bring on PR.

How many constituencies, or ridings as you seem to call them in Canada, are ones which are dead certain? The problem with FPTP is that every vote doesnt count equally valuable everywhere. The marginal ridings decidwe the outcome of the election.