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King Charles won’t stand in the way if ‘Australia wants to become a republic’
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I dunno, I've met plenty of monarchist Anglos and plenty of anti monarchist Anglos and never one monarchist Quebecois or Quebecoise
I am one. I'm a pretty weak monarchist, though, it's just that I look south and I'm glad that there's a "higher level" looking over our politicians. Even if the GG nominations aren't always ideal, at least in theory they aren't beholden to popular opinion. The fact that they're nominated and not elected ensures that they don't have the legitimacy to push their own agenda either. So it's a powerful position, but mostly symbolically and there would be a lot of backlash if some ambitious GG tried to use this power for anything other than extreme cases.
In my opinion, this is partly why our politics haven't yet devolved to the point of getting a Donald Trump. You can say what you want about Trudeau, but at least the government doesn't shut down every so often just because they can't agree on a budget.
Bonjour hi, I knew there had to be some Franco monarchists, I'd just never met any. I don't know if I completely agree but I appreciate the perspective.
It could be argued that the senate (also being unelected) is better at filling the role you ascribe to the GG. If anything it's even better, since they don't serve for a set term, and they have a much more involved legislative role.
You might be right, but our southern neighbours also have a Senate and it doesn't seem to help...