CANADIANS: Why do you even refer to canada as a "country"?

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biffnasty

this question makes me laugh.....not necessarily the question the answer...look how quick all these canadians are to attack the questioner!!!! typical canadian...always the first to throw a stone when a simple question was asked....how bout next time you all try and answer the question instead of calling names!

and countpetez....your answer tops it all, i dont know if you have a cable station that carries world news but....a canadian hockey team hasn't won the cup in over 13 years!!!go canada....maybe next year..heheheheh
and the a canadian team hasn't won the world series since 93!!!!!!!
you guys are the best....

tess

I'm absolutely sick of your Canada bashing. All your answers are the same.
Get a life.

dr_nigel_c

Canada is well aware of their "situation", and, well, maybe you should read up on what a "country" is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country

Canada fits the defintion just fine, thank you very much.

Quit trying to be funny, and let's keep questions in this "Travel" category related to, well, travel.

b d

I would rather have the queen as our official leader than a big eared puppet with the negotiating and verbal skills of a 3rd grader. At least our "leader" hasn't compromised the security of our country and pissed off a bunch of radical towel heads.

damian n

well looking into canadas history shows that they voted to join the commonwealth of Great Britain meaning they are an independentnation and a proper country. I am australian and we are part of the commonwealth and I definetly consider australia a proper country.

itssoeasy

by spending so much time writing this question, it clearly shows that you have no life.

sephoramoon

Your the joke...lol... You get off on insulting people?...I feel so sad for you. Do you have nothing better to do then try to upset people? Man, you gotta get a better hobby.

Canada is a country. The queen is merely symbolic in Canada and even in England these days. So maybe you should read a little more on the subject. Specifically how our current government is structured. Notice how England doesn't play a part in it?? Very like Australia and New Zealand, who were originally colonies but are no longer considered as such. Anyways....

Obviously your not from Canada, or your not a true Canadian patriot. Who needs you either way.

SteveN

If you had actually read the constitution, you would know that it in fact does NOT say that the Queen of England is the highest leader.

In fact the Charter of Rights and Freedoms released in 1982 when Queen Elizabeth relinquished control of Canada. From 1867 to 1982, we were a country but still officially required the Queen to give permission to make constitutional changes. After that point, she has become simply a figurehead that we honor by keeping her on our money. She is a "monarchial head of state", which quite frankly does not mean much even in the UK anymore.

Also, we are not the only country to have the Queen as its sovereign head of state. There are fifteen former colonies that now operate as independent nations, but who still honor our heritage by respecting the monarchy.

I know you are just trying to stir up trouble and put down a culture that you seem to know very little about just to but if you are going to do that, do it right.

You did not mention what country you were from. Did you have to kill 31,000 British and 625,000 of each other to form your "country"?

Brie

It's funny that you waste your time writing something like this, since it seems you hate canada so much. I'm not even clear on what the question is....it seems like you are just arguing and complaining. And why get so upset over something like this, why is it such a problem to you?

thinkingtime

Oh dear, how very ill-mannered.

This person seems to get a lot of satifaction from such questions. Click on the avatar to get a list of the other silliness.

Chris

Please tell me you're not from the UK?
Go and learn some history, you're giving us Brits a bad name.

tuppenybitz

why does it bother you so much? is it any of your business anyway
Australia has the old bat as a figure head too but that means nothing to an Aussie.

just face facts you cant stand that canadians are popular worldwide and most people dispise the yanks
get over yourself

Salain

Please tell us where you are from...

I'm a French Canadian, and I can tell you that Canada is the greatest country on Earth...

CanTexan

Actually, the wording of the Canadian Constitution indicates that the Queen (capitalized, no country designated) is a member of the government of Canada. There is a reason for this, as is shown below.

The British Sovereign is also the Sovereign of certain other Commonwealth Realms: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the Solomon Islands and Tuvalu.

Each of these nations is a separate monarchy; the Sovereign therefore holds sixteen different crowns. In each nation, the Sovereign is represented by a Governor-General, who is bound by conventions just like the Sovereign is. The Governor-General, therefore, only acts on the advice of ministers. The local government, not the British government, advises the Governor-General.

In addition, the Sovereign is ruler of certain Crown dependencies: the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. The British government acts for them in the areas of war and foreign policy. They are not, however, part of the United Kingdom; rather, they are dependencies of the British Crown.

Finally, the Sovereign serves as Head of the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth is a body of nations that include former British colonies; in some cases, however, nations that were never under British rule have been admitted. The role of Head of the Commonwealth is a personal role of the present monarch, Elizabeth II, and is not attached to the monarchy. The role is only a ceremonial one and carries with it no power.

Canada is technically a monarchy in its own right ... it just happens that the monarch of Canada is ALSO monarch of several other nations (pretty familiar stuff to anyone who has made a study of European history ... all the ruling families were pretty much inter-related at some point). And that the current monarch of Canada (and those other nations I mentioned) chooses to reside in Buckingham Palace, in the modern nation known as England.

Clovie

hmmmm....the queen is 'the leader' of England, Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland....they are all countries (and one 1/2 country lol)....why not Canada?

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