Pickup you are such a maroon...he says selectively
The Queen is on our currency out of respect.
The crown has zero influence on our policies.
I might have to send Captain Canuck down there
to give you a royal kick in the bum.
The first two paragraphs of the link I provided in my post says it all. Perhaps you and your fellow Canuck should spend less time focusing on our 2nd amendment and more time figuring out how your government really works.
Just in case you haven't read that link, here are the first two paragraphs.:
The
monarchy of Canada is the core of both
Canada's
federalism and its
Westminster-style parliamentary democracy,being the foundation of the
executive,
legislative, and
judicial branches of the
Canadian government and
each provincial government. The monarchy has been headed since 6 February 1952 by Queen
Elizabeth II, who as sovereign is
shared equally with
fifteen other countries within the
Commonwealth of Nations, all being independent and the monarchy of each legally distinct. For Canada, the current monarch is officially titled
Queen of Canada (
French:
Reine du Canada), and she, her
consort, and other members of the
Canadian Royal Family undertake various public and private functions across the country and on its behalf abroad. However, the Queen is the only member of the Royal Family with any
constitutional role. While several powers are the sovereign's alone, because she lives predominantly in the United Kingdom, most of the royal governmental and ceremonial duties in Canada are carried out by the Queen's representative, the
governor general. In each of
Canada's provinces, the monarch is represented by a
lieutenant governor, while the territories are not sovereign and thus do not have a
viceroy.
Per the
Canadian constitution, the responsibilities of the sovereign and/or governor general include summoning and dismissing parliament, calling elections, and appointing governments. Further,
Royal Assent and the
royal sign-manual are required to enact laws,
letters patent, and
orders in council. But the authority for these acts stems from the Canadian populace and,within the
conventional stipulations of
constitutional monarchy, the sovereign's direct participation in any of these areas of governance is limited, with most related powers entrusted for exercise by the elected and appointed
parliamentarians, the
ministers of the Crown generally drawn from amongst them, and the
judges and
justices of the peace. The Crown today primarily functions as a guarantor of continuous and stable governance and a
nonpartisan safeguard against the abuse of power, the sovereign acting as a custodian of the Crown's democratic powers and a representation of the "power of the people above government and political parties."
