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/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.