Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 1:48 am
gaffo wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 12:56 am
I read that Julie Payette resigned from your Viroy/King/Queenship last month.
I believe you'll find that Canada only has a queen as a figurehead...she actually has no real power. She's a kind of "Uncle Sam" figure, not a true head-of-state anymore. Canada is a Parliamentary Democracy, and the true head of state is the PM, you'll discover.
She's totally symbolic...
In practice , not in principle.
tell your above to the folks in Australia in the 70'/
and th thousands of your countrymen drafted by your GG during ww1,
GG is a relic of the visroys of old in the Commonwealth, you may think its all title, but ""under the books--letter of the law" your Queen has the power to sing off on Julies refusal to resign and to call for a new election of the Candain PM.
as was done - as i said in Autralia in 74?
----I'm not talking about the convention of society, i'm talking about the letter of the law - as as long as your parlement dos not specifically via legislation remove either the post or power of the GG - the GG is in theory the ruler of canda, and Australia and NZ (ep. if backed by a strong Royal).
Virtoria was srtong - i assume in 74, and now weak. and so PAyette stepped down instead of what happened in Australia 45 yrs ago.
------GG post you may think has ben symbolic since the dawn of time, but that post was last used with power via the Quebec terrorists in the 70's - the GG of the time was the only one that had the authority to call in the tanks and marshall law to lock down Montreal.
50 yrs later is the same - GG post remains and is the only person that can call upon the Canadian Armed Forces - so if Quebec repeats the uppity terroist they did back ni the 70 - in ay 2025 - your PM lack the authority to call in the tanks - he will have to bow to the GG to make that order. - as was the case in the 70's/
I know my history and my law - as in the rule of law/letter of law - not convention (the latter is irrelivent until the former is repealed by the same letter of the law).. To wall off abuse of power you can't rely upon convention, you have to codify it via repeal.
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And so, sin since your parlement never bothered to nulify the post of the GG by law, the GG still have full powers under the letter of the alw - if not via social convention.
so in an alternate universe - Payette could refuse to resign, VVict 2 with a spine/grevanece could sing off on Payette's refusal to resing, and in turn fire your PM on ordeer of the Queen.
It get dicey though, because your Nation has had 2-3 llevel of independance - ffirst was in the 20's, (actually first was the brits allwoing your to become a "brit dominion" in the mid 19th century)the tthe 60's (related to the British High Court for C Canadian felons - Canadian courts did tthier thing and defendants were sent via appeal to the Brit Supremem court (so if can court thought the guy was guilty as sin, but brits courst aquited your guys had to lmp it) - you threw off the brit SC i nthe 60 some time - so by then fully independant.
but are you? - if you formally still recognize the GG - and that her boss - the queen has authority - then per the letter of Canadian law - though an independant nations - must abide by the authority of a now foreigner - victoria 2 as having actual lagel power in in a soverign state~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
just sayin.