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Indeed and even if people weren't too satisfied with the situation the issue is simply never going to be urgent enough to be addressed at once. On top of that all this "if it ain't broken don't fix it"-rhetoric. Given the demographic changes your country is undergoing there are bound to be a lot of people who will think it is broken and needs to be fixed. Btw. When you become a Canadian citizen are you obliged to make some oath of allegiance to the crown or only Canada?

One would imagine that in all of these countries, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, where a foreigner is the head of state the system worked well as long as the vast majority of the population of the countries in question originated from the United Kingdom but as with globalisation and ever increasing immigaration this must be getting less and less common and more and more people living in those three countries feel no loyalty or affinity whatsoever towards someone living 10000 miles away that just must have some pressure on the system.

Is there any support in Canada for becoming a republic like there is in Australia where they even had a referendum which was lost but the issue isn't dead? There is a marked difference between Australia and New Zealand as in the former there is the republican-movement while in the latter there is almost no sentiment that the British should be viewed as, if not even as enemies, but as a nuisance to get rid of. In NZ Britain is often referred to as the mother country, something you can spend your life-time trying to hear in Australia. Just wondering what sort of benefits is there for Canada to remain in the Commonwealth and is remaining in that union only possible if you have a foreigner as head of state?

Neither of them comes even remotely close to George W Bush and Tony Blair.

A lot of Cuban-Americans have claims to property in Cuba. After the Cuban regime finally collapses a lot of lawyers will be getting richer.

The closest seems to be the westernmost tip of Cuba to Cancun in Mexico. I wonder why that route hasn't become used. I know Mexico isn't the USA but Mexico isn't Cuba either.

I just watched the map. I didn't realise before how close Cuba is to Florida. I knew it was close but that close. If it were as easy to move into the USA as it is to move from Africa into any EU-country there would probably be no-one left in Cuba.

It seems that your Prime Minister made the statement without consulting his advisors first. He comes across as a kind of guy for whom it is always unwise to make any statements without consulting his advisors first.

Even though Fidel has been away for some time from the leadership of the country his death clearly marks an end of an era. How many people in Cuba are mourning and how many people are thinking "good riddance" is anyone's guess. The news reports tell about wild street celebrations in Miami, which gives you a clue about the popularity of the deceased leader. Where from now? Will Cuba open up and turn into another Central-American/Caribbean country, which in reality means subservience to the US but if the alternative is poverty then no prizes for guessing which is the preferred option. Expect a tidal wave of immigration from Cuba and long days for lawyers in Florida working for Cuban-Americans trying to reclaim their lost property in Cuba.

I think in a country like Finland it was useful at a time as late as in the 1960's when something like 95% of the population belonged to the same religious group. The exceptions were odd outcasts but otherwise society had cohesion. Nowadays that percentage is about 70% and I am certainly not included. The very idea of an established church in any state is just absurd. People ask "Do you belong to the church?". It is still the church. Not a church. I'm glad we seculars are gaining ground year after year.

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He only has two years to do what he likes and even then it will be difficult as most Republicans don't like him either. In two years time the Republicans will suffer a defeat in the mid-term elections and Trump's hands will be tied. You can say that with near certainty as it has happened to every President that their parties don't do well in mid-term elections.

I'm sure the vast majority of these "protesters" are just having fun as for some people have a weird idea of fun including rioting but it would be interesting to know how many of them are sincere protesters and what exactly do they wish to achieve. Do they expect the election-result to be cancelled only because it didn't please them? Are they grown-up people who realise that disappointments are part of life?

The elction in four years time is not going to be another "incumbent president gets easily re-elected"-election like we have used to in the past few years. Trump will very likely be talked out of standing for re-election but if he still decides to seek re-election he may face a serious challenge from within the Republicans, which is totally against the tradition. Namely, an incumbent President seeking re-election is challenged in primaries only by attention-seeking village-idiots but not by serious politicians. That may be different if Trump runs for another term.

It's about time people got over their disappointment and started to look ahead. It's been one week already. Enough of doom and gloom! Some people are behaving as if this were the final presidential election and the outcome would be affecting forever. Besides, Trump-haters can take consolation in the near-certainty that Trump has only two years to do as he pleases as every time the president's party loses the mid-term Congress-election. There has not been any so popular president that he would have won the mid-term elections.

It's funny actually that a multi-billionaire is viewed as a candidate of the "forgotten people" or of those of the ordinary man. The same thing happened in 1992 when another mega-rich candidate Ross Perot stood as a third-party candidate and practically destroyed Bush sr chances of being re-elected. It can be said that the vast majority of those who voted Perot would have voted Bush had there not been Perot.

Soros is a dangerous man. He is like Trump but on the opposite side of the fence.

Is the poison-feeder Soros living in America? If so I wish Trump goes after him and has him arrested for inciting hatred because that is what Soros has done for a long time. Of course I realise that such a wish is just fantasy. Nothing will change and the sorores of this world will go on.

Do Canada and the United States allow each others' citizens exemptions when it comes to immigration from either of those countries to the other or are they treated like any other foreigners who have to fulfill requirements for immigration?

Let's try to explain the nature of the electoral college in an analogy a Canadian would understand. Imagine there was a hockey series of best of seven matches and a team A beat team B by four games to three. The individual games would be 1-0, 1-0, 1-0, 1-0 for the team A and 0-5, 0-5, 0-5 for the team B. Team A win by four games to three though the number of goals is 4-15 against them.

I was earlier too embarrassed to ask as I didn't understand what that millenials voting meant. Glad I figured it out myself. Or did I? Those who have had the vote only since the year 2000?

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. These people have had a president to their liking for the past eight years and maybe they will have another in four years time. In the meantime they have to put up with somebody they don't like. Soros is instigating all this and these people who are there protesting don't realise that they are being used as pawns in a very cynical game.

Some Californians are toying with the idea of a Calexit. Go ahead. Last time there was an attempted secession just over 150 years ago that was a roaring success.

I'm sure Trump doesn't mind but it left a bit of a bad taste in the mouth about the election that Trump won only because of the electoral system, not because he would have received more votes than his rival, which he couldn't do. It might be that in the next four years he will be reminded time and again that he doesn't have a "proper mandate" On one hand the elctoral system favours the Republicans which win in smaller rural states which are naturally more Republican-leaning and are overrepresented in the elctoral college in relation to their true size- On the other hand demographic changes favour the Democrats and in the future it will become more difficult for the Republicans to win elections. g

Hillary lost in all the states where she lost to Sanders in the primaries. The conclusion is that unlike what was said Sanders' supporters did not support Hillary.