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[-] fnord@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 hours ago

Good on them. I would refuse it too. Personally I find it abhorrent that we as a society still allow this one person to be a king just because he was born into the magic family.

We already have a Canadian Governor General doing the actual job, why not just formalize it and do away eyes the crown.

[-] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 31 points 9 hours ago

Charles is nothing but a normal dude...I respect these people for not blindly saying sole crap that nobody agrees with

Royalty need not exist in this world anymore

[-] Incandemon@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I like to think of it like a zoo exhibit, come and see the orangutans. The royals have no real power in our society, and I'm sure every party has legislation prepped to abolish the monarchy if they ever try anything other than what they're told. So long as they keep bringing in more money than it costs to feed em I can see keeping them around.

That being said we should start working on removing them from government ceremonies like this. Why not swear to the people, or on the charter or something.

[-] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

I think it’s easier for Britain to remove the king then Canada.

[-] fnord@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 hours ago

The problem is they don’t need legislation, they need a constitutional amendment which is a pretty high bar to pass…

[-] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

Never get there if we don't start!

[-] fnord@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

Agree with you there!

I would love to see the monarchy abolished.

[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 12 points 8 hours ago

So what happens when the byelection is called and the same people are elected and refuse to pledge allegiance? Another countdown timer?

It is a tricky situation where two governance structures collide. We really need to modify the constitution such that the GG replaces the Crown in all matters of state. They do all the work already anyway.

[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 3 points 8 hours ago

I really like toronto and would have liked to move there but man this type of thing would have been the hardest part (well obviously there are other hard parts or I would have done it)

[-] Albbi@lemmy.ca 10 points 7 hours ago

What part would have been the hardest? I'm a Canadian and the only time in my life I had to swear an oath was when I went to work in Government. I think I was offered an option to swear on the Bible or to the Queen. Again, the only time in my life it came up and it was kind weird.

Americans swear alliegiance to their flag every day in school. That's weird.

[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 3 points 4 hours ago

yeah the pledge was wierd but it was actually not that often and even by upper grade school your going to get a lot of clowning around it so im not sure if they gave up all over or just after a certain grade. Honestly its just the technical monarchy part. I might misunderstand but I thought some representative of the monarch could dissolve parliment and make and break treaties and such.

[-] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

I've become a Canadian citizen fairly recently, and the first time I have ever encountered anything related to the King since the past eight years I've been living here was during the Citizenship Oath. Which was a fun little ceremony.

You don't even have to become a citizen to live in Toronto. Instead I'd just simply not live in Toronto because it's a shit place, not because of some irrelevancy.

So don't let Charles hold you back!

[-] Albbi@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 hours ago

The constitutional monarchy is just a leftover remnant and not relevant to daily lift. The Governor General (the King/Queen's representative) does have the power to dissolve and create governments but it's really just symbolic. If they were ever to use that power against the wishes of the electorate, that power would probably get taken away really quickly.

King Charles hasn't even visted Canada since he became king. That's how much the monarchy means to us too in Canada. Symbolic, but stay away.

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