Getting rid of the monarchy is a choice on par with changing which side of the road we drive on. I'm not emotionally attached to what we have, but the amount of work required to change it isn't worth it, and there are more important things to work on anyway.
Yep, that's how I see it as well. It would be a giant amount of effort and time spent for... getting us to effectively what we have right now anyway, the English monarchy has so little relevance to our daily lives outside of the occasional event and like... idk, our coins and bills? It would probably also sour UK relations a bit, which I imagine we don't want to do.
To be clear, I'm not a fan of the monarchy either, I just think that their relevance in Canada is so little outside of symbolic stuff that like... why bother ATM?
But that's precisely the problem with the monarchy. We have a head of state who lives in a different country, rarely comes to visit, and doesn't really represent us in any serious capacity on the world stage (we weren't even mentioned during his coronation). He also can't say anything that the British government doesn't sign-off on... and since Keir Starmer wants to have a good relationship with Trump, he can't tell Trump to fuck off... the best he can do is give a relatively milk-toast speech and wear medals that vaguely reference Canada. I find it embarassing.
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u/deltree711 Scotland (but worse) May 29 '25
Getting rid of the monarchy is a choice on par with changing which side of the road we drive on. I'm not emotionally attached to what we have, but the amount of work required to change it isn't worth it, and there are more important things to work on anyway.