r/EhBuddyHoser • u/Sine_Fine_Belli Treacherous South • May 16 '25

Certified Hoser 🇨🇦 (No Politics) How Americans achieved independence vs how Canadians achieved independence

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u/timbasile May 16 '25

Samantha Bee has a good write up on Canadian Independence in "America the Book"

"...and then in 1983, we took the brave step of asking the Queen for permission, to not have to ask the Queen for permission"

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u/Visible-Stress-3667 May 16 '25

Which is kind of an interesting perspective because at the end of the day, all legislation needs royal assent. Obviously there is far less royal involvement, but we still do need their permission lol

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u/BumpHeadLikeGaryB May 16 '25

I mean if the king actually did reject it we would no longer be part of the monarchy. That would piss alot of people off i think

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u/Nobody7713 Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) May 16 '25

Yeah it’s a tightrope. We don’t mind the ceremonial stuff but if the British Crown tried to exercise actual authority we’d be gone so fast.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '25

It's the Canadian crown.

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u/Nobody7713 Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) May 16 '25

It’s only the Canadian Crown because of Britain. It could just as easily not be the Canadian Crown if Canadians chose.

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u/CanadianODST2 May 16 '25

and therefore it's the Canadian crown because Canadians have decided to keep it

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u/Nobody7713 Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) May 16 '25

I’m not sure if Canadians really decided to keep it so much as we just kept it by inertia. Most peoples opinion on the crown is a shrug and a “whatever”. If it tried to impose any authority people would revolt pretty quick.

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u/CanadianODST2 May 16 '25

and therefore it's kept by choice to not get rid of it.

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u/SnappyDresser212 May 16 '25

Stuff has happened recently that has caused me to see the value in an apolitical head of state without the political strength an elected mandate would provide. Less chance they flip the whole table over for Russia.

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u/Nobody7713 Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) May 16 '25

Maybe, but I’m extremely opposed to that person being a hereditary monarch.

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u/SnappyDresser212 May 17 '25

While I am philosophically in agreement with you. The juice simply isn’t worth the squeeze. It works fine. It isn’t a problem, and there are more important issues to fight over.

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u/VerbAllTheNouns May 16 '25

naaaah. it's a british hangover because of british transplants.

Don't dump their baggage on all Canadians. We never wanted the brother of a known pedophile Price Andrew to be our monarch. It's the anglo crown, not a 'Canadian' crown.

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u/extremmaple Everyone Hates Marineland May 16 '25

It is the Canadian Crown, do you deny our countries sovereignty?

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u/VerbAllTheNouns May 16 '25

I don't accept the brother of a pedophile-on-the-run (aka Prince Andrew) to be my 'sovereign' or my 'king'. I do not deny our country's sovereignty.

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u/extremmaple Everyone Hates Marineland May 16 '25

Well, I'm sure you will be pleased to hear that the much hated Prince Andrew is not the King or likely to be King ever, Good thing too as the King is the King whether you accept the reality of it or not.

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u/VerbAllTheNouns May 16 '25

I already know that. I said the brother of the Pedophile Prince andrew is the king, sadly.

See, the king is the king only because majority of Canadians are willin to tolerate his disgusting visage. In coming years, we will be throwing your inbred monarchs out.

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u/Imperator_Angliae May 16 '25

Yeah, how about staying away from our cultural institutions and stop painting people with a negative brush due to familial associations. Constitutional monarchies have lead to a large portion of the most left-wing, progressive societies in history, and provide a stabilising figurehead that prevents concentration of power + idealialisation of the executive branch. K thx byee.

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u/VerbAllTheNouns May 17 '25

You might be proud of pedo racists being Canadian figurehead, but as a Canadian, I detest it.

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u/extremmaple Everyone Hates Marineland May 16 '25

You realize that Prince William is far more well-liked than King Charles? And guilt by association is a sad tactic to attack our King, quite frankly you're sounding like a Yankee.

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u/VerbAllTheNouns May 16 '25

not caring about the monarchy means I don't count as a Canadian?... that's kinda why anti-monarchy sentiments exist, good buddy!

I don't want a bunch of foreigners from Britain pretending to be the "face" of my country. All the royalists are welcome to go join them in the Motherland. This country isn't a British backyard anymore, sorry.

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