• For anyone who has been to the Yukon Territory and gazed upon its majesty, King Charles can get fucked. That province may as well be a wild horse. Even Alaska is a giant let-down by comparison.

    • Born and raised here. It’s nice if you love the outdoors and nature, but if that’s not a big draw for you then our CoL is absolutely insane for such a boring and small place. Paying 2760 per month for a run down shithole 3 bedroom in a shitty neighbourhood fucking sucks and unless you have a degree, you have to work some kind of labour job to make decent money. Most of those are either camp jobs or require a vehicle cause they’re out of range of the public transit.

      It is a beautiful place and our summers are short but amazing, but like I said it’s awfully boring if you’re not an outdoorsy person. The winter is also long, dark, and very cold.

    • I like to think of it like a zoo exhibit, come and see the orangutans. The royals have no real power in our society, and I’m sure every party has legislation prepped to abolish the monarchy if they ever try anything other than what they’re told. So long as they keep bringing in more money than it costs to feed em I can see keeping them around.

      That being said we should start working on removing them from government ceremonies like this. Why not swear to the people, or on the charter or something.

  • So what happens when the byelection is called and the same people are elected and refuse to pledge allegiance? Another countdown timer?

    It is a tricky situation where two governance structures collide. We really need to modify the constitution such that the GG replaces the Crown in all matters of state. They do all the work already anyway.

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      I mean for these kind of nut jobs I can’t imagine pledging to the GG is actually significantly better than the Crown. I say that because I’m also such a nut job, at least in principle.

      • Thats hard to say. its been so swingy but from most of what I have looked at they have been comprable. Im not sure though if the greater toronto region has as many affordable options. For example I live in a burb just outside the city in a modest condo but im still near (the end of) a rapid transit line.

    • What part would have been the hardest? I’m a Canadian and the only time in my life I had to swear an oath was when I went to work in Government. I think I was offered an option to swear on the Bible or to the Queen. Again, the only time in my life it came up and it was kind weird.

      Americans swear alliegiance to their flag every day in school. That’s weird.

      • yeah the pledge was wierd but it was actually not that often and even by upper grade school your going to get a lot of clowning around it so im not sure if they gave up all over or just after a certain grade. Honestly its just the technical monarchy part. I might misunderstand but I thought some representative of the monarch could dissolve parliment and make and break treaties and such.

        • I’ve become a Canadian citizen fairly recently, and the first time I have ever encountered anything related to the King since the past eight years I’ve been living here was during the Citizenship Oath. Which was a fun little ceremony.

          You don’t even have to become a citizen to live in Toronto. Instead I’d just simply not live in Toronto because it’s a shit place, not because of some irrelevancy.

          So don’t let Charles hold you back!

          • oh its not what held me back. its just hard. by the time I realized how much toronto was like chicago as far as its infrastructure (transit, the lake, similar weather, skline, parks, etc) I was already established and had a wife and real estate. Its just to much to risk so much.

        • The constitutional monarchy is just a leftover remnant and not relevant to daily lift. The Governor General (the King/Queen’s representative) does have the power to dissolve and create governments but it’s really just symbolic. If they were ever to use that power against the wishes of the electorate, that power would probably get taken away really quickly.

          King Charles hasn’t even visted Canada since he became king. That’s how much the monarchy means to us too in Canada. Symbolic, but stay away.