waving and getting flowers is not working for canada. what exactly has she done in our parliament? what actual one thing has she done for the people of canada? i dont care about england, im not english so i dont care what shes does for them or if they keep her forever. im talking about canada. i think we need to get rid of the monarchy here. its embaressing for me personally to still have this old fashioned royal family around here.
The Queen's duties (bear in mind she does all these things, and others, and she's 80 years old) -
Her Majesty carries out hundreds of official engagements every year - but it's all in a day's work for the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. In 1998, for example, the Queen had a total of 440 engagements on native soil and 55 overseas visits. A lot of visits around the country and overseas give Elizabeth the chance to meet people from various backgrounds.
The Queen also attends many meetings with the government, including government ministers in the Privy Council and the Prime Minister, and gives audiences to foreign and British ambassadors.
Elizabeth contends with truckloads of paperwork, consisting of letters from supporters of monarchy, government officials, and the top secret papers in the "red boxes" - Government and Commonwealth policy documents and other State papers - which arrive every day of the year, wherever she is. She even "does the boxes" at her holiday residence of Balmoral (working while on vacation - now that's dedicated!)
The Queen CANNOT just rule arbitrarily (we chopped off Charles I's head to make sure of that). She conducts weekly meetings with the Prime Minister - usually on Tuesdays - to see what is happening in the government and the general political goings on. She, on almost all matters, acts on the advice of the government of the day. Her Majesty is only a constitutional monarch, meaning she does NOT have absolute rule over her country. She must take Parliament's and other members of government's views into consideration.
http://www.mandysroyalty.org/Queen.html