12-05-2008, 03:45 AM
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Too lazy to set a custom title
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: West Coast, Canada.
Posts: 10,217
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Originally Posted by CDSmith
Thank you. Just like I said, she's a formal figurehead. "in the name of" does not mean she's making command decisions and calling the shots. It means her formal representative the governor general is. He's saying Canada is still controlled by the UK. The 1982 act would indicate otherwise, which is all I'm really trying to get through to the guy.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_Canada
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_General_of_Canada
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The Governor General is the representative of the Canadian monarch, and may exercise most powers vested in the Crown. The Queen does retain all executive power and her Royal Prerogative, but she has never personally intervened in Canadian politics; most of her duties being exercised by the Governor General, though she does alone hold the power to appoint a governor general, and, as required by the Canadian constitution, to add seats to the Senate, but does so only on the advice of the Canadian Prime Minister. Although the person who is monarch of Canada is also monarch of the United Kingdom, Canada being a sovereign nation, the British government cannot advise the Queen or her Governor General on Canadian matters, or otherwise interfere in Canadian affairs.
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The Constitution Act of 1982 severed ties with the UK, NOT the Queen... |
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