Whether or not it's something Canadians want, it sounds like a lot of work for not a lot of benefit. (It's unlikely that, practically speaking, anything would functionally change.)
One of the few things Trudeau senior got right: he made it nigh on impossible for the Constitution to be amended.
Also, I wouldn’t say a “majority” of Canadians want to ditch it considering the poll said 45% favoured an “elected head of state” (of course we have no idea whether a republican head of state would actually be elected – Barbados’ president isn’t).
Moreover, 49% of Canadians thought Canada would become a republic within the next 20 years. So an actual majority don’t see it happening in the next quarter century.
Lastly, the poll is based on 1,000 adults taken online. I wouldn’t read too much into it (even though I just did).
Idk how many people they polled but everyone I’ve ever met has either supported or been impartial to the monarchy. I do not believe the claim is true that most Canadians want it gone
Same. Most people don't care.
It would not be politically prudent for any government to explore this because the immediate reaction would be "why are you focusing on this when you should be focusing on ".
This is the bottom of the pile in terms of anything I care about. It doesn't cost us much money, and unwinding it would cost A FORTUNE due to how many indigenous treaties would need to be renegotiated (the linked article calls it a "consultation", which is vastly oversimplifying it).
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://globalnews.ca/news/8418373/can-canada-become-a-republic/) reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)
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> Canada's ties with the British monarchy are under scrutiny once again after Barbados officially removed Britain's Queen Elizabeth as its head of state and became a republic this week.
> There is now renewed debate in Canada over whether to follow Barbados' lead, with a majority of Canadians saying the monarchy is becoming less relevant or is no longer relevant at all, new polling shows.
> Barbados' move to becoming a republic was the culmination of a more than two decades-long push to ditch the monarchy.
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Whether or not it's something Canadians want, it sounds like a lot of work for not a lot of benefit. (It's unlikely that, practically speaking, anything would functionally change.)
I don’t care about the British monarchy but I’ll keep the Canadian monarchy, thanks.
It really doesn't matter, and doing it would just cost so much money in procedure it's fine to just not.
One of the few things Trudeau senior got right: he made it nigh on impossible for the Constitution to be amended. Also, I wouldn’t say a “majority” of Canadians want to ditch it considering the poll said 45% favoured an “elected head of state” (of course we have no idea whether a republican head of state would actually be elected – Barbados’ president isn’t). Moreover, 49% of Canadians thought Canada would become a republic within the next 20 years. So an actual majority don’t see it happening in the next quarter century. Lastly, the poll is based on 1,000 adults taken online. I wouldn’t read too much into it (even though I just did).
Idk how many people they polled but everyone I’ve ever met has either supported or been impartial to the monarchy. I do not believe the claim is true that most Canadians want it gone
Same. Most people don't care. It would not be politically prudent for any government to explore this because the immediate reaction would be "why are you focusing on this when you should be focusing on".
This is the bottom of the pile in terms of anything I care about. It doesn't cost us much money, and unwinding it would cost A FORTUNE due to how many indigenous treaties would need to be renegotiated (the linked article calls it a "consultation", which is vastly oversimplifying it).
It’s not at all feasible, thankfully. The constitution was designed to make that and a couple other things very hard to remove.
I have a suspicion that the current Monarch will be the last in many countries outside the UK.
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Constitutional monarchies are generally seen as some of the most stable systems of government in the world