Re:US-owned Greenland and Gulf of America? What a weird week
by bpye on Monday January 13, 2025 @10:30AM
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Could provinces do it? They are not strictly republics - they still each have a lieutenant governor, appointed by the governor general and act as the King’s representative. Passage of legislation still requires royal assent.
Re:US-owned Greenland and Gulf of America? What a weird week
by NoMoreNicksLeft on Monday January 13, 2025 @10:46AM
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I do not believe that it counts that Canada has a monarch, unless say Alberta has its own private king or something. But I'm conceding that I don't know the answer to this and my first comment's overstated. My bad.
Re:US-owned Greenland and Gulf of America? What a weird week
by TMWNN on Monday January 13, 2025 @10:22PM
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>Could provinces do it?
Yes. The Canadian Supreme Court's Re Secession legalized secession. More info: <https://www.reddit.com/r/geopolitics/comments/tkg5gf/who_has...>.
>They are not strictly republics - they still each have a lieutenant governor, appointed by the governor general and act as the King’s representative. Passage of legislation still requires royal assent.
Nothing prevents former Canadian states from retaining parliamentary systems after annexation. They would still need a governor, either elected or appointed by the federal government, who would fulfill the role the king's representative does now, but that is no different from any former monarchy that, after becoming a republic, now elects a president to serve in that role.
Any of the Canadian provinces could do this on their own (though, maybe they should consider getting the divorce finalized first), Greenland could do it, hell, Argentina or Mongolia could do it.
The catch being, of course, Congress doesn't have to accept.