I, for one, welcome King Chuckles

[Dougie93]

17 minutes ago, CdnFox said:

Thank god, they can have you.  Off you go then. 

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

[blackbird]

4 minutes ago, Dougie93 said:

it's not like "Canadian" has any meaning beyond a tax jurisdiction after all

Nonsense.   You don't know anything about Canadians.

As for King Charles III, it doesn't matter what he believes.  He still is King of the realm.  

I know the Anglican church has gone downhill a long way.  But that is the way the world is today.  Many denominations have gone downhill as well.  

However, politics and the type of system we have in Canada is still preferable to Canadians than what is going on in other countries.

[Dougie93]

3 minutes ago, blackbird said:

Nonsense.   You don't know anything about Canadians.

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

 

[CdnFox]

48 minutes ago, Dougie93 said:

I can come & go as I please, just like the next third world immigrant just fallen off the cabbage boat,

 

Of course, although you probably smell worse and contribute less.  However presumably you got your passport for a reason, by all means use it as soon as you like! We'll keep the cabbage boat guy, at least he's worth SOMETHING 

[blackbird]

Just reported on the news that support for the monarchy as grown to 66% of Canadians.  I think Trump really helped boost support for the monarchy.  Thank you Mr. Trump. 

We don't want to be Americans and don't want a Republic.  

[CdnFox]

2 hours ago, Dougie93 said:

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

 

Well any credibility you had on the subject just went out the window. But we knew that

[herbie]

8 hours ago, Nefarious Banana said:

President Donald Trump to receive knightood . . . ?

expect a Royal "whoopsie !" when his head rolls off tapping him with the sword.

[Iceni warrior]

12 hours ago, Dougie93 said:

"Canadian" is a meaningless distinction, just another colony of the British Empire

Not 'just another colony of the Empire'.

You are our second favourite of all the colonies.

 

[Iceni warrior]

10 hours ago, Dougie93 said:

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

 

...with freer weed and cheaper healthcare.

[Dougie93]

1 hour ago, Iceni warrior said:

...with freer weed and cheaper healthcare.

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
 

[Dougie93]

12 hours ago, blackbird said:

Just reported on the news that support for the monarchy as grown to 66% of Canadians.  I think Trump really helped boost support for the monarchy.  Thank you Mr. Trump.

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

[SpankyMcFarland]

19 hours ago, blackbird said:

Don't forget King Charles III reigns over about fifteen countries.  He can't be everywhere.  We have a governor general who represents the King here.   The GG carries out the duties as necessary. The system works fine.

Seriously? Our head of state should be here annually or we should look for a new arrangement. The GG is simply not the same. We have just seen what happens when the UK and Canada have different policy agendas. Charles could only signal his support for us in oblique ways. 

[SpankyMcFarland]

If people love crowns and sceptres so much we could always get some German prince to do the job full time here as the British did with the Hanovers. Even some obscure member of the House of Windsor might hanker for such glory. 

[Legato]

6 minutes ago, SpankyMcFarland said:

If people love crowns and sceptres so much we could always get some German prince to do the job full time here as the British did with the Hanovers. Even some obscure member of the House of Windsor might hanker for such glory. 

Shhhsh the Tudors are listening.

[Dougie93]

2 minutes ago, SpankyMcFarland said:

If people love crowns and sceptres so much we could always get some German prince to do the job full time here as the British did with the Hanovers. Even some obscure member of the House of Windsor might hanker for such glory. 

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

[Dougie93]

12 minutes ago, SpankyMcFarland said:

If people love crowns and sceptres so much we could always get some German prince to do the job full time here as the British did with the Hanovers. Even some obscure member of the House of Windsor might hanker for such glory. 

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

[Dougie93]

2 hours ago, Iceni warrior said:

Not 'just another colony of the Empire'.

You are our second favourite of all the colonies.

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

[Dougie93]

1 hour ago, SpankyMcFarland said:

If people love crowns and sceptres so much . 

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,

Edited Tuesday at 04:07 PM by Dougie93

[Dougie93]

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,

Edited Tuesday at 05:00 PM by Dougie93

[Dougie93]

16 hours ago, blackbird said:

Nonsense.   You don't know anything about Canadians.

this coming from the person who vociferously asserts, 

that the Government of Canada is a conspiracy being run by the Roman Catholic Church

[blackbird]

19 minutes ago, Dougie93 said:

this coming from the person who vociferously asserts, 

that the Government of Canada is a conspiracy being run by the Roman Catholic Church

It is true the Vatican has a lot of influence in Canada, but that does not mean ordinary Canadians agree with it.   There are only 10.9 million Catholics in Canada which has a population of about 40 million.  That means there are about 29 million people who are not Catholics.  RCs are over-represented in government.   There are still a lot of Protestants and Conservatives who are loyal to Canada.  Most Canadians still support the Constitutional Monarchy and Parliamentary system we have.

You made the claim that Canadians are "frankly indistinguishable from Americans, tho clearly most Canadians would be Democrats"

That proves you don't really know much about Canadians.   We don't have a Democrat Party.  We have the Liberal Party.  About 40 to 50% of Canadians support the Liberal Party and NDP.  The other 50% of voters support the Conservative Party, Bloc and a few fringe parties. We thankfully are not stuck with a two party system.   We have several parties which gives people more choice and brings a wider point of view to Parliament.

The majority of Canadians support the system we have even if they support different political ideologies.  The Constitutional Monarch is separate from politics and political parties.   The Republican system combines the head of state with politics.  Canadians prefer to keep the head of state separate from politics.  Big difference.

 

Edited Tuesday at 05:24 PM by blackbird

[Dougie93]

6 minutes ago, blackbird said:

It is true the Vatican has a lot of influence in Canada, but you are the one that said :

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

That proves you don't really know much about Canadians.   We don't have a Democrat Party.  We have the Liberal Party. 

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

Edited Tuesday at 05:20 PM by Dougie93

[blackbird]

8 minutes ago, Dougie93 said:

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,

just replace "slavery" with "indigenous" and the two parties are exactly the same

It seems they both take their lead from the Vatican to some degree.  The Liberals don't follow the Democrats.  They are influenced by the Vatican which is Socialist and globalist.

Many Liberal leaders and the new Speaker of the House of Commons attended Jesuit run high schools and institutions.

Edited Tuesday at 05:26 PM by blackbird

[Dougie93]

27 minutes ago, blackbird said:

The majority of Canadians support the system we have even if they support different political ideologies.  The Constitutional Monarch is separate from politics and political parties.   The Republican system combines the head of state with politics.  Canadians prefer to keep the head of state separate from politics.  Big difference.

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,

17 minutes ago, blackbird said:

It seems they both take their lead from the Vatican to some degree. 

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

Edited Tuesday at 05:40 PM by Dougie93

[blackbird]

5 minutes ago, Dougie93 said:

even as an Ulster Orangeman, I find that to be a lunatic conspiracy theory

Bull.