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Old Posted Jun 14, 2012, 7:34 PM
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Originally Posted by jmt18325 View Post
She's a non resident....she isn't foreign.
Well then. I suppose it would be just fine if we had a Prime Minister living in Nigeria. As long as he has Canadian citizenship, everything is cool, right?


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Well, that's nice and all, but yes, you do. Like so many of the first would countries in Europe, Canada is a constitutional monarchy. That's the way things work here.
So, then how exactly do we "serve" the royals? I'm pretty sure nothing I've ever done has served them in any way.


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Originally Posted by Beedok View Post
Considering we only exist as a country due to having a loyalty to said monarchy across the ocean I don't think that really counts as being failures.
We exist as a country because what was Canada in 1776 simply didn't want to join the US in rebellion - more likely a case of the situation under the British being comfortable enough vs. an unknown situation with the Americans, than there being any particular loyalty to the British - remember that it was of course a French colony just a few years prior.

(cool story: had it not been for the off-putting behaviour of American Brigadier General David Wooster in Montreal, we likely would be American)
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