Queen Elizabeth was a good place to stop.
What seems likely to me is slowly changing things bit by bit. I don’t think the UK would mind either, it’s just a matter of spending time and effort (and money) making those legal changes.
The final constitutional change seems unlikely anytime soon. It’s very unlikely that all the provinces will agree to play ball and get it done unless there was an urgent need to get rid of it.
Whether or not the UK would mind is irrelevant. Much like the monarchy. LOL
Greetings from the UK.
Please go for this. The more of you leave the “common” wealth, the less grasp they have, and hopefully they become easier to eventually completely be rid of.
Anyone claiming they have no influence is being wilfully ignorant at this point
https://theconversation.com/the-queens-gambit-new-evidence-shows-how-her-majesty-wields-influence-on-legislation-154818 (yes, she’s dead, but what applied to her will apply to him)
The monarchy does not affect my life in any way.
I don’t care either way. Literally don’t care.
I’m smart enough, though, to know that it’s being used as a dog whistle to whip up populist nationalism which is never a good thing for a country.
That goes both ways though. Wouldn’t the effort and cost to remove them be wasted if they don’t actually do anything. Lots of people struggling right now and I’d be pretty pissed if the government went around spending time and money on this
It doesn’t affect us day-to-day no, but honestly I like being part of a ‘Commonwealth’. I like feeling like I have something in common with Australia, or New Zealand, or the UK, even if I’ve only ever been to the UK for a few hours.
Your family name (for most people, unless you’re George Hitler) has no impact on your day-to-day, this to me seems like saying “We should just get rid of family names!”
The people who are being manipulated with this nationalist dog whistle see no value in being a member of the Commonwealth. Canada First and MCGA and all.
They won’t. We live in a constitutional monarchy. Their role is ceremonial.
It costs a lot of money, this money comes from your taxes, it affects your life
Sixty million a year could build multiple public housing projects, every year. And on the other side of the balance scale is Charles.
Changing our relationship with the UK in this climate of increasingly grabby fringe groups is a huge risk.
We have bigger fish to fry.
Indigenous person here … the monarchy is a complicated thing in Native Canada
On one hand most of us absolutely hate and despise the idea of a monarchy, kings and queens and all that garbage (personally I would love to see them removed from anything to do with government)
On the other hand, the monarchy is our linchpin on the government where many of our original agreements and treaties start and originate from. Many believe that in doing away with the monarchy … it would give the government an opportunity to do away with many historic treaties and agreements from the past that were made with the monarch and not with the country. It’s a whole legal debate that would be a huge headache for government/Native people/monarchists/anti-monarchists/etc
So in Native Canada … it’s split … we would love to see the King leave … but we also don’t want to give the government a chance to step away from legal responsibilities. Argue what you want but whenever dramatic changes happen to laws regarding Native people … historically, it’s never been good for us … and Indigenous Canada knows that by heart now … we don’t trust the Canadian government of any stripe to do anything beneficial for us … we have to fight for ourselves all the time.