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Offline Queefer Sutherland

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Re: The Queen is dead
« Reply #15 on: September 08, 2022, 09:08:42 pm »
L'État n'est pas elle.

She is the embodiment of the Crown and the head of state, she isn't the state, but she symbolically represents the state through the Crown.  Go look up what a head of state is and what the Crown is in this country:

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/crown

"In a monarchy, the Crown is an abstract concept or symbol that represents the state and its government. In a constitutional monarchy such as Canada, the Crown is the source of non-partisan sovereign authority. It is part of the legislative, executive and judicial powers that govern the country. Under Canada’s system of responsible government, the Crown performs each of these functions on the binding advice, or through the actions of, members of Parliament, ministers or judges. As the embodiment of the Crown, the monarch — currently Queen Elizabeth II — serves as head of state."

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Or how about we don't. The beauty of living in a democracy is we don't have to respect our leaders, especially the ones we didn't choose.

You don't have to respect the individual person, but as a Canadian you have to respect the institution and what she represents, which is The Crown, and her position as Queen embodying the Crown, which is the state and government itself.  For instance, in order to get their citizenship new Canadians don't swear an oath to Canada, they swear an oath to the Queen of Canada (and her successors) since they represent the Crown, which is the same as swearing allegiance to Canada (since the Crown = Canada).  All of our laws are the Queen's laws because the GG, who represents the Queen (who represents the Crown, which represents Canada) signs our bills into law on the advice of Parliament.

So if you want to sh!t on the Queen you're literally sh!tting on the country itself, and are basically in outright rebellion of the country.  Any immigrant who becomes a citizen who swears their allegiance to the Queen (Crown) and then turns around and tells the Queen to shove it has legally broken their oath and their citizenship should be null and void.

But luckily we don't take orders from Elizabeth the human being, because the Queen's laws are signed on the advice of Parliament, which is elected by and represent the people of Canada.  So the Queen's laws are our laws in the end, so there's nothing to worry about.
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