Should Elizabeth II be Canada's Elizabeth the Last?

Keep in mind though...my personal experiences of Canada are limited to Western Canada meaning Alberta and British Columbia. Ontario and Atlantic Canada are doubtless very different. Milk sold in bags, for instance...

 

The royal family are popular around the world btw, not just in USA.
I think most of people in US don't care too much about UK either..
California state has a bigger economy than the entire UK...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/04/california-economy-uk-fifth-largest

 

Pobre Mexico. Tan lejos de Dios y tan cerca de Estados Unidos...Porferio Diaz

 

California also has a slightly larger population than Canada if you can believe Wikipedia.

 

Y Canadá igualmente. Hay frío también.

 

A difference off the top is that everywhere in the country that they're a language minority, French-and English- speaking Canadians alike have minority language rights. For example, anywhere in the country without exception, Canadian defendants have the constitutional right to a criminal trial in either language.

Anywhere "numbers warrant," and that threshold's easy to meet, Canadians have the right to public schooling of their children in a parent's language. There are further minority language rights and services provided beyond the requirements of the constitution. I had much of my public schooling in full-day French Immersion in a part of Canada where French is a small minority and I had no constitutional right to it per se. (My father grew up in a French-majority part of regional Quebec, but his family was in the English-speaking minority there.)

Yep.

This is significant to the monarchy. It's significant to many Indigenous nations and peoples in Canada that the treaties they enacted were enacted with the Queen or King at the time and continue with the present Queen today.

If any move toward a Canadian republic did not have very high support from Indigenous people in Canada, that would swing against that change many non-Indigenous Canadians for whom Indigenous-settler reconciliation is an important issue.

This 'settler ally' bloc includes many of the Canadians you'd otherwise expect to be republicans. I'm one.

Yep.

The cultural relationship between Canadians and the monarchy is massively unlike the cultural relationship between British and the monarchy. It's considerably less salient for most Canadians.

I respect Elizabeth II for her public service work. I have ambivalent mixed feelings about the second and third in line. I've warmed up to the Sussexes.

 

Barbados. It's all here: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/barbados-will-finally-cut-ties-to-the-british-monarchy-after-years-of-trying

 

Yes, a small island in the Caribbean. A commonwealth country not a current Overseas Territory. Easier for them than for Canada though. Canadian constitutional law is opaque in places but one feature that is quite clear is that every Province has a direct line of authority to the Crown. That's why everybody would have to agree.

 

True, language rights for French and I suppose English speakers even in Quebec but not for any other language group as far as I know. That's a birth "defect" that will continue to trouble Canada until either Quebec secedes or the rest of the country loses its patience. If I were Canadian I'd have lost patience long ago.

 

Charles de Gaulle died 10 years before Jennifer Lamiraqui was born!

 

Anyway I do think that Canada might stick with the House of Windsor exactly because it makes Canada different from the U.S. in a fundamental way.

 

The ghost of that arrogant (insert pejorative here) is enough.

 

Vive la différence!

 

Indigenous languages have some official rights and standing. There are things like publicly-funded "heritage language" classes for immigrant diasporas where populations are large.

I don't see how having official language minority rights across the country is a defect or frustrating. Many countries have similar.

 

I'm not a fan of "group rights". Individuals have rights and everyone should be equal before the law. Groups having special or additional rights runs contrary to the equal rights ideal.

 

If you have a right to your criminal trial or your child's education in one official language, is that a problematic "group right?" Does it become a problematic group right when the number of official languages exceeds 1 or exceeds some other number?

 

Yes, it is. French speaking Canadians and ONLY French speaking Canadians have that right. That's a minority group right that, say, Cantonese speaking Canadians don't have.

But look, I'm not a Canadian! As someone else said earlier, I will leave that to the Canadians to decide.