Originally Posted by Grand Moff Tark_0
I dont believe that we need a queen here,she is in my opinion just a costly figure head...
You can say whatever you want as long as it isn't a lie.
No Canadian taxes are in support of the Queen's person or household.
A small part of Canadian taxes are in support of HE the Governor General (Mrs Clarkson). In your Canadian constitution (which the Queen signed in person), Mrs Clarkson is your head of state.
According to your constitution, all of the everyday duties of the Queen in Right of Canada are handled by HE the Governor General. HE the Governor General has the right and capability of calling on the Queen if she wants, and the Prime Minister of Canada also has the right to go to the Queen for advice and he can go to the Queen to remove the Canadian head of state if necessary.
You might want to look up a Canadian work called
The Invisible Crown. Although it is generally invisible in everyday Canadian life, it is indispensable to the government and the constitution. You might want to also read up a bit about how Trudeau called on and used the Queen's authority to help solve the Quebec Crisis.
It is perhaps a shame that we do not talk about it more in the Canadian public schools, but the information is there if you want to read it.
In the severest form of emergency, like the Quebec crisis in the 60's, or in the case of a runaway government, the power of the monarch is there to serve the people when you need it.
You should count yourself lucky that there is an ultimate authority in your country that could move to veto the actions of a tyrannical government.
...i think that if you were to go around in even Toronto...and ask....
I used to live in Rosedale, Toronto. I know.