Canada to join Talebans in enforcing dress code on women

[Valmy]

Also, viper is going to be pissed, since royals are visiting Canada again for the 60th aniversary of our Queen.

Just 34 years to go to break Pepi II's 4,000 year old record.

And they said it would never be broken.

[Grey Fox]

Also, viper is going to be pissed, since royals are visiting Canada again for the 60th aniversary of our Queen.

Did you order your 5 free prints of the Official Queen portrait?

[HVC]

Also, viper is going to be pissed, since royals are visiting Canada again for the 60th aniversary of our Queen.

Did you order your 5 free prints of the Official Queen portrait?

i already have several in my wallet, don't need more

[grumbler]

Hence not Canadian ergo foreign monarch. I take it she's British though

  No such thing as a "foreign monarch" of a country.  She's no more British than Canadian.

[Duque de Bragança]

Hence not Canadian ergo foreign monarch. I take it she's British though

  No such thing as a "foreign monarch" of a country.  She's no more British than Canadian.

I beg to differ. After all, she does get CAP money unlike Canadians

[Valmy]

I beg to differ. After all, she does get CAP money unlike Canadians

Canadians who own farms in Europe do not get CAP money?

But just like Canadians she cannot vote in UK elections.

[Barrister]

L'État c'est elle, so to speak.

Only works for absolute monarchies, not for figure heads, veiled or not.

Nope.

Elaborate.

Neil could perhaps give a better explanation if it's something he's interested in, but in the Westminster system the concept of the state is synonymous with the monarchy.  In court I don't represent the Province of Alberta - I represent The Queen In Right of Alberta.

It is because our system did start out as an absolute monarchy, but obviously has evolved over the centuries.  But those legal fictions remain.

[Duque de Bragança]

I beg to differ. After all, she does get CAP money unlike Canadians

Canadians who own farms in Europe do not get CAP money?

But just like Canadians she cannot vote in UK elections.

As much as her ? Besides, I doubt their numbers are significant.
Are you sure about Canadians? Often former colonies get a special treatment, like EU citizens for local elections without being a national of the country in question.

Wikipedia says they can. I'm sure Brits can confirm or infirm it

United Kingdom



(CN and EU member) Since 1949, the United Kingdom, citizens of the Commonwealth countries and of the Republic of Ireland have had full voting rights at all levels and can be candidates, as they could before 1949 as British subjects; they are not regarded in law as foreigners.[2][8]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_foreigners_to_vote#United_Kingdom

[Valmy]

Are you sure about Canadians? Often former colonies get a special treatment, like EU citizens for local elections without being a national of the country in question.

Well dang.  Canadians are more British than Queen Victoria.

[Duque de Bragança]

Are you sure about Canadians? Often former colonies get a special treatment, like EU citizens for local elections without being a national of the country in question.

Well dang.  Canadians are more British than Queen Victoria.

If being more British means having more voting rights than her, then EU nationals are also more British than Her Gracious Majesty.

[HVC]

Are you sure about Canadians? Often former colonies get a special treatment, like EU citizens for local elections without being a national of the country in question.

Well dang.  Canadians are more British than Queen Victoria.

[Duque de Bragança]

L'État c'est elle, so to speak.

Only works for absolute monarchies, not for figure heads, veiled or not.

Nope.

Elaborate.

Neil could perhaps give a better explanation if it's something he's interested in, but in the Westminster system the concept of the state is synonymous with the monarchy.  In court I don't represent the Province of Alberta - I represent The Queen In Right of Alberta.

It is because our system did start out as an absolute monarchy, but obviously has evolved over the centuries.  But those legal fictions remain.

Point taken about the legal fictions remaining. It says it all.


Most important is the niqab/burqa  double standard. Even in a non secular and "multiculturalist" state such as Canada.
Québec got it right from the beginning.

[Valmy]

Point taken about the legal fictions remaining. It says it all.

It says that it is no longer a monarchy in any functional sense.  So who cares?  The Queen is a mascot nothing more.

[Malthus]

Most important is the niqab/burqa  double standard. Even in a non secular and "multiculturalist" state such as Canada.
Québec got it right from the beginning.

I don't get why it is a "double standard" to require people to have their faces uncovered when necessary for purposes of identification, but not otherwise. 

[HVC]

Most important is the niqab/burqa  double standard. Even in a non secular and "multiculturalist" state such as Canada.
Québec got it right from the beginning.

I don't get why it is a "double standard" to require people to have their faces uncovered when necessary for purposes of identification, but not otherwise. 

Duque has spent too much time in France. He's been corrupted