Why is Canada still a constitutional monarchy?

[KrazyHorse]

You need to take something for that paranoia, man.

[notyoueither]

I want an answer to our Guard beating up the Canadian Armed Forces in the invasion of Ontario!

That would be a clincher.

[Asher]

I wonder if we could keep all the army and air force assets stationed in Alberta in the case where we invade Ontario.

Since many of them are in the military (you never know with Canada), they'll probably be conservative and would fight in our favor.

[KrazyHorse]

The day will come...

when Ontario starts making secession noises too. I can't wait for that.

[notyoueither]

Nope. Be fair. Give Canada back the PPCLI (those that want to go). We have to have some opposition or it would be no fun.

[notyoueither]

Ontario? That would be like succeding from yourself wouldn't it?

[KrazyHorse]

I can just see it. You'll invade the ROC, annex it as Albertan property, we'll vote to secede from the US and rename ourselves Canada, and we'll be back where we started.

[Asher]

Won't happen. Once we invade I'll be the Emperor of the Empire of Canadia, and no one can leave except by death.

We've already outlined my senate.

[notyoueither]

KH Good plan. Macchiavelli woud be proud.

[Tingkai]

Originally posted by Asher
Won't happen. Once we invade I'll be the Emperor of the Empire of Canadia, and no one can leave except by death.

And the day Canadia becomes a country, the headline in the daily newspaper, The Asherian, would read: Suicide Rate Soars.

[Richelieu]

Getting back to the topic of this thread : you'll get no argument from me about getting rid of the monarchy. Any amount spent on it is a waste.
As for the Senate, of course it needs refoooooooorming. And since we're not going to do away with it, we should use it -more-efficiently.
As for the method to be used to name the senators... i wouldn't mind having another elected body.
You do run the risk of getting a mirror of the representation you have in the House of Commons, but i also think we could use it as a balancing mechanism.

Asher : are you proud to be a Canadian ? (just asking)

[Asher]

Originally posted by Tingkai
And the day Canadia becomes a country, the headline in the daily newspaper, The Asherian, would read: Suicide Rate Soars.

Yes, I imagine it would be particularly hard on all the people who constantly voted for liberals and put down Alberta to see how wrong they were. So wrong, in fact, they'd be driven to kill themselves.

Asher : are you proud to be a Canadian ? (just asking)

I used to be.
Now the novelty is wearing off, and the federal government pisses me off more every day, it seems. By the time I move away when I'm done university I'm sure I'll be as right wing as Floyd. And you know who you have to thank for that -- Chretien. The more he and his government screw everything up, the more convinced I am that less government is better.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
we'll vote to secede from the US

Someone already tried that, KH.

[David James]

One of the weird things about all of this is that I am still trying to figure out which Ontario interests have been served by the current Liberal regime. Ontario ships billions of dollars eastwards with no real gain from what I can tell. The provincial government is deprived of the health and education transfers it should be getting and then the people of Ontario and the Liberal government blame Mike Harris's Conservatives, but then go on to re-elect them anyway. Maybe Ontarians know that Mike Harris is telling the truth, but if that is the case why vote Liberal federally?
We have got to be the most bone-headed province in the land. Ontario's interests would be far better served by voting for more conservative parties federally because in most respects we are far more similar to Alberta and BC than to Quebec and the Maritimes. The only thing I can think of is that Ontarians vote the way they do to "keep the country together". But even that may not be in Ontario's interest. The government of Ontario even came out with a study about how Ontario could and would benefit from Quebec seperation. Like I said, we're the most bone-headed province in the land. The reason BC and Alta should be pissed off at us is not because we do everything in our own interest, but because we don't! What we do is in no one's interest but that of the Liberal Party of Canada.

[Guynemer]

Originally posted by Asher
By the time I move away when I'm done university I'm sure I'll be as right wing as Floyd.

I think it's time we had an intervention for Asher.