On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Daniel J. Matyola <danmaty...@gmail.com> wrote: > Why do you Canadians still put up with those silly "royals"? > > As the grandson of peasants, the pretension to royalty or nobility > really offends me.
I am personally offended that our head of state lives in a foreign land and that for a bill to become law it must first receive "royal assent". Yes, that's given by our Governor General, but she is after all the Queen's representative, and she can be recalled by the Queen at any time. I don't think we can really and truly call ourselves an independent nation as long as that goes on, and I find it humiliating. That being said, Bill's right. It works, and it works pretty well. The Constitution (both written and unwritten, ie: convention) limits what the Crown can do in reality. We are de facto an independent nation, even if a de jure we aren't. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
