Should Canada become a republic?

Blackleaf

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Government in the US is so bad better off by Canadian election 2019 the New Republic wanted by PM by plus football better ego in Europe.

Are you Swedish?

If so, I can understand your difficulties in mastering English. Swedes find the English language to be quite complex - they have but one word for "am", "is" and "are" - but love the far richer vocabulary that English has competed to their own language. One sentence in English can be written in many more different ways than one sentence in Swedish.
 

MHz

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Government in the US is so bad better off by Canadian election 2019 the New Republic wanted by PM by plus football better ego in Europe.
If you go by the letter of the Law then we are still Sovereign Provinces, just like the Queen created. There is no record of a referendum style vote by the people of the Provinces that they should join together into one country. I can see why the vote was never taken, same reason the Quebec issue wasn't voted on by all Canadians. . . . Do I need to explain that??
 

Walter

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Are you Swedish?
If so, I can understand your difficulties in mastering English. Swedes find the English language to be quite complex - they have but one word for "am", "is" and "are" - but love the far richer vocabulary that English has competed to their own language. One sentence in English can be written in many more different ways than one sentence in Swedish.
Just Avro being an asshole.
 

White_Unifier

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Like Frances, German, Italian and more in Europe.

France got rid of the monarchy quite peacefully... a few times... all it took were a reign of terror followed by alternating republics and monarchies... we'll see how long the present one lasts.
 

Curious Cdn

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France got rid of the monarchy quite peacefully... a few times... all it took were a reign of terror followed by alternating republics and monarchies... we'll see how long the present one lasts.
.... and even then, the Monarchy didn't stay away. They had an Emperor followed by a restoration monarchy in the mid 19th century. In the end, the French monarchy ran out of gas and faded away.
 

taxslave

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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?
Like we have now except we could fire elected senators. The senate would have to be equal though, not loaded in favour of the east.recall legislation is a must.
 

Blackleaf

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Originally Posted by White_Unifier
France got rid of the monarchy quite peacefully... a few times... all it took were a reign of terror followed by alternating republics and monarchies... we'll see how long the present one lasts.

The English got rid of theirs before the French did.