Comments on: Canadian Monarchy Debate Rekindled: Should We Dare to Depose Our Foreign Head of State?

By: Jeff K

Jeff K — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:28:23 +0000

Elspeth, it was an inside joke. Read Justin’s bit in the December Skeptical Inquirer. The joke was reverse-engineered from his Power Point presentation that the school kids were roasting him over. Follow their example when he comes to your school. Push him on his definitions, he hates that.

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Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:48:16 +0000

[...] Canadians ever choose to depose the monarchy? Probably the only thing that is stopping them is their apathy. The main reason Cdns [...]

By: Bertha

Bertha — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:31:02 +0000

Shroedinger’s cat , sounds alot like a tree falling in the forest, although
i wasn’t there, so i’m not sure if there was a sound at all!!LOL

By: Elspeth

Elspeth — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:33:37 +0000

Hey, Jeff, but then there’s Shroedinger’s cat! I learned about that on the TV show Flash Forward. So now I’m an expert? Anyway if you cover the traffic lights, they are both red and not red at the same time! Well,OK according to the video here; http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci341236,00.html Shroedinger was commenting on the absurdity of quantum mechanics.

By: Royalist

Royalist — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:29:31 +0000

“… the US has proven a modern secular democracy can elect a Black head of state …”

Yeah, right, but what about the cost? Last year’s election campaign cost more than $ 1 billion. The next election campaign in 2012 will be even more expensive. The inauguration of Barak Obama in 2009 cost more than the Queen’s coronation in 1953. Did anybody get discriminated either in Canada or in the UK because the sovereign is head of the Anglican church? None!

By: Jeff K

Jeff K — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:29:58 +0000

Man this is dumb. The kings employ people like me who know something about logical thought and wither those like you who fail on the semantics of Schopenhauer.

Look out Justin, the light is either red or it is not red, now wait a minute you were looking too far down the street. See you in hell.

By: Fraser H.

Fraser H. — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:45:58 +0000

The Monarchy provides the basis for all our laws, changing it would be very difficult constitutionally. And I really don’t get upset by anything the Monarchy does. Our country was given complete, effective, autonomy without the need for a revolution. Also the Monarchy gives us a firm tie to the U.K. and Europe for free. We don’t have the social distrust towards Europe as seems to be prevalent in a lot of American’s minds.

If we’re going to complain that royals get a free ride in society, they are really getting that free-ride from the British, not us. It is up to them to decide whether the Royals are worth supporting or not. I think it’d be cool if the royal family was tax-paying and had all the same rights/responsibilities as any other Briton, but that’s not Canada’s decision.

The Governor General, in one way or another, has earned her place. Like our Senators she gets a cool job after having done great things. I didn’t know the GG had to be Anglican, that’s the real only thing that bugs me about the position.

I really don’t see much reason to change. And I think we have a lot to lose by changing.

French Canadians probably have a much stronger reason for wanting change, because it is a symbol of how our government flows from Britain, not France. But I don’t see why we should support francophone skeptics by taking the same position as they do on the Monarchy.

I’d like to see Quebec language law repealed. To me that’s more important than having a non-Anglican GG.

By: Elspeth

Elspeth — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:53:18 +0000

This looks interesting:
http://open.salon.com/blog/jason_d_hill/2009/04/02/the_british_monarchy_must_go_1

Also, there are plenty of Brits who want to end the monarchy: http://www.republic.org.uk/Who%20we%20are/index.php

By: Elspeth

Elspeth — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:37:20 +0000

Royalty is a lot like the caste system in India. Your ancestry, your genetic heritage, decides your place in life. For the royals, they get a guaranteed career, beautiful homes, all kinds of servants. They can abdicate, but usually they don’t . Ever hear of a royal being fired from their job? I haven’t.

The caste system in India is supposed to be illegal, but in practice it goes on.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091109/crossette
The idea that someone gets a guaranteed high-life and career, (or guaranteed misery), due to genetics is quite horrific.