Iceland to Adopt Canadian Dollars as Currency?

[Viking]

But it is also a term of oppression.

I was under the impression that Dominion status for Canada was Canada asserting control over it's own internal affairs taking that control away from Britain.

[garbon]

Although it's not really the Dominion of Canada, and republicans like viper who feel that the US has an example to offer us just like to get riled up about that sort of thing.

Without a particular legal relation to the UK, you're not a Dominion.

Reminds me of my grandfather.  He was called Oscar all his life.  But his birth name was Edgar.  Up until his death, to the government, he was Edgar.

So, unless you make it official, simply calling yourself "Canada" does not change anything, we're still in the (British) Dominion of Canada and your government truly wants to remind us at every turn that we're still a colony.

Terrible analogy, almost Martinus-esque.  A 'domionion' isn't just a word, but a description of a particular political relationship to the UK.

But it is also a term of oppression.

Not necessarily.  You only see that because of your victim complex.

Or mocking viper.

[viper37]

actually, it still is a Dominion.  Well, the name is still Dominion of Canada, because it's never been officially changed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Canada#Use_of_Canada_and_Dominion_of_Canada

I'm not seeing how you get the name is still that. Article seems to suggest that you could potentially use that but no one would.

It's never been officially changed.  No one use that, true, but it's still there.  Officially.  English Canadians like to cut their ties withouth really severing ties.  See the Canadian "declaration of independance" posted by BB for a prime example

[viper37]

actually, it still is a Dominion.  Well, the name is still Dominion of Canada, because it's never been officially changed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Canada#Use_of_Canada_and_Dominion_of_Canada

I'm not seeing how you get the name is still that. Article seems to suggest that you could potentially use that but no one would.

viperism (vi-per-ism) n. The state of being riled up about the inconsequential, particularly in relation to perceived slights to nationalism or republicanism. "Don't mind his rants, he's just suffering from an acute attack of viperism brought on by that portrait of the Queen".

At the time of the Roman Empire, there were slaves who were really, really, really proud to be slaves.
Nowadays, you see similar devotion to foreign leaders, some people are just proud to be colonials, bowing to their masters in far away lands.
I just want Canada to be its own country, not the servant of some foreign leader put there simply by birth.  I find it retarded, you find it prideful.  To each is own.

[viper37]

Although it's not really the Dominion of Canada, and republicans like viper who feel that the US has an example to offer us just like to get riled up about that sort of thing.

Without a particular legal relation to the UK, you're not a Dominion.

Reminds me of my grandfather.  He was called Oscar all his life.  But his birth name was Edgar.  Up until his death, to the government, he was Edgar.

So, unless you make it official, simply calling yourself "Canada" does not change anything, we're still in the (British) Dominion of Canada and your government truly wants to remind us at every turn that we're still a colony.

Terrible analogy, almost Martinus-esque.  A 'domionion' isn't just a word, but a description of a particular political relationship to the UK.

But it is also a term of oppression.

Not necessarily.  You only see that because of your victim complex.

Or mocking viper.

You're free to move to Canada any time  
Our government gives you free Queen portrait once you become a subject of her majesty the Queen of England.

[viper37]

A 'domionion' isn't just a word, but a description of a particular political relationship to the UK.

A dominion means you're an "independant colony".
"Defenders of the title Dominion—including monarchists who see signs of creeping republicanism in Canada—take comfort in the fact that the Constitution Act, 1982 does not mention and therefore does not remove the title, and that a constitutional amendment is required to change it.[33]"
I'd swear you wrote this in Wikipedia

[Razgovory]

Sorry, Viper but they are right.  Your position is silly.  It might mean something if Canada wasn't a real independent country, but that's not the case.  If anything Canada's history of being a colony is one of the happier ones in the world.

[Valmy]

You're free to move to Canada any time  
Our government gives you free Queen portrait once you become a subject of her majesty the Queen of England.

There has not been a Queen of England in three hundred years.

[viper37]

There has not been a Queen of England in three hundred years.

type "Queen of England" in Google and see what's the first result

[garbon]

There has not been a Queen of England in three hundred years.

type "Queen of England" in Google and see what's the first result

Not sure why you are making an appeal to the masses here.

[viper37]

There has not been a Queen of England in three hundred years.

type "Queen of England" in Google and see what's the first result

Not sure why you are making an appeal to the masses here.

I don't care about the official title.

[Neil]

There has not been a Queen of England in three hundred years.

type "Queen of England" in Google and see what's the first result

Not sure why you are making an appeal to the masses here.

I don't care about the official title.

That's pretty funny.

[garbon]

That's pretty funny.

That is rather odd.

[Neil]

That's pretty funny.

That is rather odd.

Considering that the guy is worked up about a title whose officiality has been debatable for the last 30 years and whose use has been discouraged for over a half century, hearing that sort of thing makes you think that maybe viper might be crazy.

[viper37]

Considering that the guy is worked up about a title whose officiality has been debatable for the last 30 years and whose use has been discouraged for over a half century, hearing that sort of thing makes you think that maybe viper might be crazy.

I am not worked up about "Dominion", you are as if it had any significance.  I just pointed that we are still officially the Dominion of Canada, because it was never officially changed.  The 1982 Constitution refers the the North American British Act wich clearly states "Dominion of Canada".
That does not change anything in my life.
But apparently, it does change a lot in yours as you're trying so hard to find non existing evidence that it's not the true name of the country.  Even your fellow monarchists disagree with you.