Should Canada become a republic?

B00Mer

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49% of Canadians wanted to abolish the constitutional monarchy structure then and become a republic, with an elected head of state. ... Only a minority 27% preferred Canada to remain a monarchy, while the plurality 43% preferred Canada to have an elected head of state.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate_on_the_monarchy_in_Canada#2005–2009

I for one think it's time, give the Provinces more powers, senate must be elected by the people.. more individual rights
 
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Try getting all of the Provinces to agree to that, so that we can amend the Constitution.

Then again, pigs sez he can fly.
 
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B00Mer said:
49% of Canadians wanted to abolish the constitutional monarchy structure then and become a republic, with an elected head of state. ... Only a minority 27% preferred Canada to remain a monarchy, while the plurality 43% preferred Canada to have an elected head of state.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate_on_the_monarchy_in_Canada#2005–2009
I for one think it's time, give the Provinces more powers, senate must be elected by the people.. more individual rights
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Depends on what the new constitution says.
 
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The idea of an elected senate sounds awfully expensive to me.

It sounds like a recipe for political gridlock.

If you had system like that wouldn't you just be inviting periodic government shut downs over ideological issues?
 
Jinentonix

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Hoid said:
The idea of an elected senate sounds awfully expensive to me.
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Compared to sending $223 million to Latin America and the Caribbean?
Hoid said:
It sounds like a recipe for political gridlock.
If you had system like that wouldn't you just be inviting periodic government shut downs over ideological issues?
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It's either that or continue having un-elected patronage jerks making utterly biased decisions and then retiring with a golden pension. Basically it's six of one, half dozen of the other.
 
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Serryah said:
He's saying there should be a 2 term limit on being PM, not that there is one currently.
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There is one practically. I can only remember three PMs that lasted more than that ... MacDonald, Makenzie King and Trudeau the Elder. They were all a while back now and it is far from being the normal pattern of this country.

BTW, We don't elect Prime Ministers in the Westminster system. It doesn't work that way, at all. If you think that the American system is a template for good governance, think again. A telling endichment of that dysfunctional mess is that no one else has copied it in 2-1/2 centuries, it's so bad. A few Latin American countries sort of did and every one of them ended up as dictatorships.

We have the worst system around ... except for the other ones.
 
Danbones

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All senate seats should have a time limit - 2 like the PM.
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One recess should be lots of time.
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Like "work up" base ball...three swings and NEXT!!!

BTW:
The only PMs I know of that have 'term Limits' are "Pulse modulators"



You kNWO ...the fictional kind.
 
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