Canada to firmly re-assess its status as a British colony

[Neil]

'Appreciative of the French distinctiveness'? 

'Looking to make a buck and take advantage of cheap, civilized labour' would fit better, I think.

[viper37]

God save the Queen.
Hang the queen by the end of the week

[HVC]

God save the Queen.
Hang the queen by the end of the week

"Like virtually every other country in the world who display pictures of their head of state in their missions, we expect all Canadian missions abroad to display pictures of Canada's head of state"

Makes sense.

[Razgovory]

God save the Queen.
Hang the queen by the end of the week

Oh the humanity!

[viper37]

God save the Queen.
Hang the queen by the end of the week

"Like virtually every other country in the world who display pictures of their head of state in their missions, we expect all Canadian missions abroad to display pictures of Canada's head of state"

Makes sense.

of for fuck sake.  That's a pitiful excuse.

The head of state, for all intent and purpose is the Governor General.  He/She's the one who would take over the government in case of a crisis, he's the one assuming transitional leadership and continuity of government (in theory) and she's the one who requires special 24/24 protection by the RCMP for all trips in and out of the country.

Fuck that Queen bullshit.  It's some retarded fetish.  And we'll have to pay the artists who made the portraits for displaying their work.  More silly expenses, as if we did not have a deficit problem.

[Malthus]

Clearly, states have the obligation to pay public funds for minority language instruction, no? Which is what you guys are denying.

Clearly, they do not.  From the link Minsky posted:

Further to this, the Court opined that the right to education implied the right to be educated in the national language, and did not include the provision that the parent's linguistic preferences be respected.

Heh, sorry I missed this last time around ... please note the date of the case (cited by Gups, not Minsky) and the date of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities. Hint: the case dates from the 1960s and the Declaration from the 1990s ... thus, you can't illuminate the meaning of the Declaration by reference to the case. 

[Razgovory]

of for fuck sake.  That's a pitiful excuse.

The head of state, for all intent and purpose is the Governor General.  He/She's the one who would take over the government in case of a crisis, he's the one assuming transitional leadership and continuity of government (in theory) and she's the one who requires special 24/24 protection by the RCMP for all trips in and out of the country.

Fuck that Queen bullshit.  It's some retarded fetish.  And we'll have to pay the artists who made the portraits for displaying their work.  More silly expenses, as if we did not have a deficit problem.

So what do you suppose the expenses are of putting up some pictures in some embassies?

[crazy canuck]

of for fuck sake.  That's a pitiful excuse.

The head of state, for all intent and purpose is the Governor General.  He/She's the one who would take over the government in case of a crisis, he's the one assuming transitional leadership and continuity of government (in theory) and she's the one who requires special 24/24 protection by the RCMP for all trips in and out of the country.

Fuck that Queen bullshit.  It's some retarded fetish.  And we'll have to pay the artists who made the portraits for displaying their work.  More silly expenses, as if we did not have a deficit problem.

So what do you suppose the expenses are of putting up some pictures in some embassies?

Less than buying a piece of art to fill the same empty space of wall.

[Barrister]

of for fuck sake.  That's a pitiful excuse.

The head of state, for all intent and purpose is the Governor General.  He/She's the one who would take over the government in case of a crisis, he's the one assuming transitional leadership and continuity of government (in theory) and she's the one who requires special 24/24 protection by the RCMP for all trips in and out of the country.

Fuck that Queen bullshit.  It's some retarded fetish.  And we'll have to pay the artists who made the portraits for displaying their work.  More silly expenses, as if we did not have a deficit problem.

Where to begin...

First, it is the Queen who is our head of state.  Period.

The GG would NOT take over the country in a time of crisis.  I have no idea where you got that from.

There's no additional cost - the government has tons of portraits of the Queen - they cost pennies to make a new print.

[viper37]

The GG would NOT take over the country in a time of crisis.  I have no idea where you got that from.

If there's a break in the government, the GG takes over, and he's the Commander in Chief too.
See this part of a nice Wikipedia piece:
However, the Royal Prerogative belongs to the Crown and not to any of the ministers,[5][118][130] and the royal and viceroyal figures may unilaterally use these powers in exceptional constitutional crisis situations

There's no additional cost - the government has tons of portraits of the Queen - they cost pennies to make a new print.

We have tons of that stuff? Where did we get all that?   When she was 16 or something?  How could we live without her portrait everywhere during all that time?

[Razgovory]

Viper, you are normally a very reasonable person, but you seem really weird on this stuff.

[Neil]

at viper for trying to use the deficit as an excuse to advance his silly Republicanism.

[dps]

God save the Queen.
Hang the queen by the end of the week

"Like virtually every other country in the world who display pictures of their head of state in their missions, we expect all Canadian missions abroad to display pictures of Canada's head of state"

Makes sense.

of for fuck sake.  That's a pitiful excuse.

It's not an excuse, it's a fact.  Canada is a constitutional monarchy, and the British monarch is your head of state.  You don't like that fact?  Well, OK, but it's still a fact.

[Razgovory]

It's weird being on the same page as Dps.

[HVC]

God save the Queen.
Hang the queen by the end of the week

"Like virtually every other country in the world who display pictures of their head of state in their missions, we expect all Canadian missions abroad to display pictures of Canada's head of state"

Makes sense.

of for fuck sake.  That's a pitiful excuse.

It's not an excuse, it's a fact.  Canada is a constitutional monarchy, and the British monarch is your head of state.  You don't like that fact?  Well, OK, but it's still a fact.

The Canadian Monarch is the head of our state. she just happens to be the british monarch too