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Old 10th December 2018, 12:16 PM   #361
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Originally Posted by Itchy Boy View Post
See post 354.
You're replacing one hypothetical with another and offering no reason to accept yours.

The FACT of the matter is that the queen has never used this power the way you describe, and that she is unlikely to do so because there are legal paths that Canada can take to boot her out completely, becoming a Republic under both major definitions of the word.

You have no rebuttals for that.

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You're talking about little laws that are never used.

You think the supreme law of the land is irrelevant?
You think there's a difference between a Constitutional Law that is unused and a minor, local law that is unused? I don't see one.

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What does your common sense tell you?
That common sense is pretty damned useless where facts are concerned.
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Old 10th December 2018, 12:17 PM   #362
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So the Queen would lose her power if she tried to use it.
That's what many of you have been saying.

According to that then, she does have the power you all keep insisting she doesn't have.
No, your conclusion is literally the opposite of what it should be: she CANNOT use that power. Ergo she doesn't have it. It's just words on paper at this point. It has no real force of law.
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Old 10th December 2018, 12:43 PM   #363
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Originally Posted by Belz... View Post
No, your conclusion is literally the opposite of what it should be: she CANNOT use that power. Ergo she doesn't have it. It's just words on paper at this point. It has no real force of law.
More to the point, why would she?

It is easy to speculate that major corporations would seek to influence governments. There is a profit to be had. However, the landed gentry classes have no need to seek additional profits and regard the pursuit with disdain. They are "old money" classes who have no need to increase their wealth like the "vulgar" entrepreneurial seek to.
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Old 10th December 2018, 04:02 PM   #364
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That you need support for this assumption, and without it you have nothing.
OK, but I still want to know your feelings on people with tremendous power. Do they use it? What does your common sense tell you?
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Old 10th December 2018, 04:03 PM   #365
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Originally Posted by Horatius View Post
You do realize that "mere precedent" is literally the underpinnings of all of common law, right?

No, of course you don't.



This is like the Anti-Freeman on the Land theory. Instead of the common law being all-powerful, it apparently has no power at all.



Now, aside from all this, what is the point of your obsession with this aspect of Canadian constitution law? What do you expect us to do, if you manage to convince us that Liz really is secretly running everything?
Does the supreme law of the land (Constitution) fall under common law?
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Old 10th December 2018, 04:16 PM   #366
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This is for all of you who think the Queen would lose her power if she did something disagreeable.
You people who think the Con is just paper and meaningless, ignore this post just as you ignore the legality of the supreme law of the land.

If you think the Queen could lose her power then whether you realize or not, whether you like it or not, you have tacitly acknowledged that, the queen HAS power, exactly as it says in the Constitution. So you agree with the original post which claims the Queen has power.

Now, how could she lose that power? It has to be by Constitutional amendment, does it not? The proclamation for amendments must originate with the Queen. But the Queen can refuse to issue a proclamation. Nowhere does it say that under any circumstances, may the PM or anyone else issue a proclamation to amend the Constitution.

If the Queen does not make the proclamation, no amendment can be made.

So by what mechanism do you propose her powers could be stripped?
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Old 10th December 2018, 04:18 PM   #367
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What makes you think your fairy-land questions deserve any answers?
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Old 10th December 2018, 04:32 PM   #368
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Originally Posted by Itchy Boy View Post
OK, but I still want to know your feelings on people with tremendous power. Do they use it? What does your common sense tell you?
My common sense tells me that your actual argument is something like this:

1) The Queen has tremendous power <= you haven't actually established this

2) Therefore, the Queen is using her tremendous power <= depends on begging the question of (2)

3) However, there's no evidence of the Queen using tremendous power.

4) Therefore, the Queen is using her tremendous power in secret, where we can't see it. <= depends on begging the questions of (1) and (2).
Common sense also tells me that the most reasonable explanation for why there's no evidence of a thing is that the thing itself doesn't exist. Certainly many people in this thread have gone to great lengths to explain to you that while the Queen has some authority on paper, in practice that authority is unusable - the tremendous power you refer to doesn't actually exist.

Look at it this way: Whoever can destroy a thing, controls that thing. In this case, Canadians can erase the Queen's on-paper power simply by choosing to ignore her commands. So much for her supposedly "tremendous" power.

You're basically forced to claim - as you have done now - that there is a secret power being used, for which we have no sign or signal or evidence.

Not only that, but even if we accepted for the sake of argument that the Queen has tremendous power that she wields in secret, it wouldn't be the empty powers granted by the Canadian constitution. It would be whatever powers her faction has brokered in secret with the other secret power brokers. For all we know, the Windsors lost Canada to the Rockefellers in a game of cards a hundred years ago.

If your thesis is actually that the Queen wields tremendous power in secret, then Canada's constitution is a red herring and a waste of your time. You should be working on your evidence of a secret cabal that wields tremendous power, regardless of what's written publicly on paper.

But really, if you're claiming that the Queen is part of a secret cabal of power brokers, it helps if you first show that such a cabal exists. It's a lot easier to show that Canada exists, but you should not take the easy path. If you want credit for your ideas, you'll need to do the work, no matter how hard it is.
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Old 10th December 2018, 05:13 PM   #369
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And we've responded, NUMEROUS TIMES, that the law is irrelevant if it's both never used and would result in said powers be removed were it used at all.

For all your whining about people not addressing your points, which is a lie, you've avoided responding to that in a meaningful way.
Beltz, get it straight. I never say anything I know to be false.

I didn't say nobody was addressing my points. I keep saying nobody has produced anything of legal standing that contradicts the Constitution or that limits the Queen's power. I'm saying their 'evidence' doesn't stand up.

But why am I explaining this to someone who thinks the Con is just a meaningless and toothless paper? Tell that to the Queen, and all the Constitutional lawyers.
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Old 10th December 2018, 05:21 PM   #370
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If you think the Queen could lose her power then whether you realize or not, whether you like it or not, you have tacitly acknowledged that, the queen HAS power, exactly as it says in the Constitution. So you agree with the original post which claims the Queen has power.

Now, how could she lose that power? It has to be by Constitutional amendment, does it not? The proclamation for amendments must originate with the Queen. But the Queen can refuse to issue a proclamation. Nowhere does it say that under any circumstances, may the PM or anyone else issue a proclamation to amend the Constitution.

If the Queen does not make the proclamation, no amendment can be made.

So by what mechanism do you propose her powers could be stripped?

So, according to you, the Constitutional Amendment Referendum for Australia to become a Republic in 1999 and supported by 5.3 Million voters could not have happened. It must have been a fairy tale, or the Queen had no power to stop it.


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Old 10th December 2018, 05:30 PM   #371
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I didn't say nobody was addressing my points. I keep saying nobody has produced anything of legal standing that contradicts the Constitution or that limits the Queen's power. I'm saying their 'evidence' doesn't stand up.

Actually everybody has been responding with what reality is, and that the wording of the Constitution of Canada, Australia, New Zealand etc, elicits a "so what".



Unless you can do more than keep saying but...but...but the Constitution this discussion will remain circular as without evidence showing anything other than the wording of the Constitution, the response will continue to be - "so what".



You need to actually go somewhere in your argument which is utterly pointless as far as it has gone.


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Old 10th December 2018, 05:32 PM   #372
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So, according to you, the Constitutional Amendment for Australia to become a Republic in 1999 and supported by 5.3 Million voters could not have happened. It must have been a fairy tale, or the Queen had no power to stop it.


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No doubt the Queen was pulling secret strings with the population of Australia to get them to vote the right way.
Perhaps she has secret mind powers?
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No doubt the Queen was pulling secret strings with the population of Australia to get them to vote the right way.
Perhaps she has secret mind powers?

I bet she is wishing right now that she had the secret mind powers to do the same thing with BREXIT.


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Charles is gonna be like "Bertie" King Edward VII:His mom (Victoria) was so long on the throne he only lasted a few years before he kicked the bucket.
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Old 10th December 2018, 06:06 PM   #375
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So, according to you, the Constitutional Amendment Referendum for Australia to become a Republic in 1999 and supported by 5.3 Million voters could not have happened. It must have been a fairy tale, or the Queen had no power to stop it.


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According to me...nothing. We're not talking about Australia. We're talking strictly about Canada.
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Old 10th December 2018, 06:12 PM   #376
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So, am I to take from that that your common sense tells you that extremely powerful people typically do not use their power? Or do you think the Queen is the exception to the rule?
Where do you get the idea that she is extremely powerful? Where has she used these powers you say she has? Why not assume that she is astute enough to know that she has authority but no real power?
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According to me...nothing. We're not talking about Australia. We're talking strictly about Canada.
Australia and Canada share probably better than 90% of the same constitutional arrangements. And much the same with most other Commonwealth countries including the UK. We have far more similarities than we have a few paltry differences. Particularly when it comes to the Queen being Head of State, we have exactly the same setup as Canada including almost the same constitutional wording.

And yet somehow the Queen has these Darth Vader-like powers that she silently but powerfully wields over us and our kangaroos and wombats. Just like she does over you and your moose and beaver. These concerns take up a lot of her day, I expect. Don't you think she would be far more concerned with what is happening with Brexit than all that? Because she isn't doing any force chokes on the silly Brit politicians who are in the process of carelessly collapsing her own country's economy if not whole way of life. Don't you think it's time she stopped worrying about the state of our affairs on the other side of the world and attended to her own back yard? Because, according to you, she and the Bilderbergs has these immense powers on tap, so she could quite conceivably use them to stop the rot! So why hasn't she?
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Old 10th December 2018, 06:20 PM   #378
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My common sense tells me that your actual argument is something like this:

1) The Queen has tremendous power <= you haven't actually established this

2) Therefore, the Queen is using her tremendous power <= depends on begging the question of (2)

3) However, there's no evidence of the Queen using tremendous power.

4) Therefore, the Queen is using her tremendous power in secret, where we can't see it. <= depends on begging the questions of (1) and (2).
Common sense also tells me that the most reasonable explanation for why there's no evidence of a thing is that the thing itself doesn't exist. Certainly many people in this thread have gone to great lengths to explain to you that while the Queen has some authority on paper, in practice that authority is unusable - the tremendous power you refer to doesn't actually exist.

Look at it this way: Whoever can destroy a thing, controls that thing. In this case, Canadians can erase the Queen's on-paper power simply by choosing to ignore her commands. So much for her supposedly "tremendous" power.

You're basically forced to claim - as you have done now - that there is a secret power being used, for which we have no sign or signal or evidence.

Not only that, but even if we accepted for the sake of argument that the Queen has tremendous power that she wields in secret, it wouldn't be the empty powers granted by the Canadian constitution. It would be whatever powers her faction has brokered in secret with the other secret power brokers. For all we know, the Windsors lost Canada to the Rockefellers in a game of cards a hundred years ago.

If your thesis is actually that the Queen wields tremendous power in secret, then Canada's constitution is a red herring and a waste of your time. You should be working on your evidence of a secret cabal that wields tremendous power, regardless of what's written publicly on paper.

But really, if you're claiming that the Queen is part of a secret cabal of power brokers, it helps if you first show that such a cabal exists. It's a lot easier to show that Canada exists, but you should not take the easy path. If you want credit for your ideas, you'll need to do the work, no matter how hard it is.
Don't conflate arguments here. My claim is that the Queen has power over our elected officials. Nothing else. I offered some speculation about using her power but I'm not making any claim. That's a matter of opinion. That she has power is a matter of fact.

I'm learning that speculation around here tends to be taken as a claim, so I'll try to refrain from speculating about anything.

Back to the facts.
How would you parse these 2 sentences?

"The Executive Government and Authority of and over Canada is hereby declared to continue and be vested in the Queen."

"The Command-in-Chief of the Land and Naval Militia, and of all Naval and Military Forces, of and in Canada, is hereby declared to continue and be vested in the Queen."


Can you explain, why they're meaningless or not enforceable? Has anyone ever challenged these Articles in the supreme law of the land? Have they ever been tested in court? Exactly how have they become meaningless. Do you think the Queen would agree with you?
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Australia and Canada share probably better than 90% of the same constitutional arrangements. And much the same with most other Commonwealth countries including the UK. We have far more similarities than we have a few paltry differences. Particularly when it comes to the Queen being Head of State, we have exactly the same setup as Canada including almost the same constitutional wording.

And yet somehow the Queen has these Darth Vader-like powers that she silently but powerfully wields over us and our kangaroos and wombats. Just like she does over you and your moose and beaver. These concerns take up a lot of her day, I expect. Don't you think she would be far more concerned with what is happening with Brexit than all that? Because she isn't doing any force chokes on the silly Brit politicians who are in the process of carelessly collapsing her own country's economy if not whole way of life. Don't you think it's time she stopped worrying about the state of our affairs on the other side of the world and attended to her own back yard? Because, according to you, she and the Bilderbergs has these immense powers on tap, so she could quite conceivably use them to stop the rot! So why hasn't she?
Norman, I'm not going to debate a subject I know nothing about regardless of how similar their arrangements might be.
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Norman, I'm not going to debate a subject I know nothing about regardless of how similar their arrangements might be.
But you are debating exactly that. You brought here a debate on the reserve powers of the Queen as specified in the Canadian constitution. That is exactly the same debate in the Australian and UK (and other country's) constitution. The Canadian constitution derives from the UK one. It never arrived out of thin air.

So now you are admitting you know nothing about your own "special subject". Well, duh!
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Can you explain, why they're meaningless or not enforceable? Has anyone ever challenged these Articles in the supreme law of the land? Have they ever been tested in court? Exactly how have they become meaningless. Do you think the Queen would agree with you?

"Never tested in court" is not a characteristic of a meaningful law (unless the law in question is newly enacted, which is not the case for the articles you cite). Laws that are actually in effect get tested in court.
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C'mon Prestige. Why the coyness? Are you afraid to give me an honest answer?

What is your opinion? Do powerful people typically use their power or not? What does your common sense tell you?

ETA: Anybody - chime in. What is your opinion on powerful people and the use of their power?
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Don't conflate arguments here. My claim is that the Queen has power over our elected officials. Nothing else. I offered some speculation about using her power but I'm not making any claim. That's a matter of opinion. That she has power is a matter of fact.

I'm learning that speculation around here tends to be taken as a claim, so I'll try to refrain from speculating about anything.

Back to the facts.
How would you parse these 2 sentences?

"The Executive Government and Authority of and over Canada is hereby declared to continue and be vested in the Queen."

"The Command-in-Chief of the Land and Naval Militia, and of all Naval and Military Forces, of and in Canada, is hereby declared to continue and be vested in the Queen."


Can you explain, why they're meaningless or not enforceable? Has anyone ever challenged these Articles in the supreme law of the land? Have they ever been tested in court? Exactly how have they become meaningless. Do you think the Queen would agree with you?

As I said earlier, another "but...but...but... the Constitution". It seems to be all you have.



I can state with certainty that nobody in this thread has denied that these words are as you say they are. I can also say with complete certainty that plenty of examples have been given to show that in practical day to day matters in the real world, the words are next to worthless.



But you cannot get past the first hurdle. And you do not even try to go past your only point. I also expect if you respond to this, or any other post, your reply will still be along the lines of "but...but...but... the Constitution".


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C'mon Prestige. Why the coyness? Are you afraid to give me an honest answer?

What is your opinion? Do powerful people typically use their power or not? What does your common sense tell you?

ETA: Anybody - chime in. What is your opinion on powerful people and the use of their power?
Does the Queen have the power you think she has?
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As I said earlier, another "but...but...but... the Constitution". It seems to be all you have.



I can state with certainty that nobody in this thread has denied that these words are as you say they are. I can also say with complete certainty that plenty of examples have been given to show that in practical day to day matters in the real world, the words are next to worthless.



But you cannot get past the first hurdle. And you do not even try to go past your only point. I also expect if you respond to this, or any other post, your reply will still be along the lines of "but...but...but... the Constitution".


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Ask a Constitutional lawyer which words in the Con are 'next to worthless'.

ETA: What's your opinion on whether powerful people tend to use their power or not?
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Ask a Constitutional lawyer which words in the Con are 'next to worthless'.

Show me a Court Case where the Queen has used her theoretical Powers in Canada which has been upheld. As you have said so eloquently on this thread, everything is irrelevant other than the Queen and Canada's Constitution.


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ETA: What's your opinion on whether powerful people tend to use their power or not?

Pertaining to Queen Elizabeth and Canada, and since any other reply would be off topic, she has not, to my knowledge, used her power at all in relation to anything Canadian (apart from visiting occasionally, probably without a Passport which she may not need anyway).


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Old 10th December 2018, 07:36 PM   #387
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Originally Posted by fromdownunder View Post
Show me a Court Case where the Queen has used her theoretical Powers in Canada which has been upheld. As you have said so eloquently on this thread, everything is irrelevant other than the Queen and Canada's Constitution.

Pertaining to Queen Elizabeth and Canada, and since any other reply would be off topic, she has not, to my knowledge, used her power at all in relation to anything Canadian (apart from visiting occasionally, probably without a Passport which she may not need anyway).


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I'm sure the mods and forum members won't mind you being off topic for a sentence or two.
So, please answer. In your opinion, in general, do powerful people tend to use their power or not?
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I'm sure the mods and forum members won't mind you being off topic for a sentence or two.
So, please answer. In your opinion, in general, do powerful people tend to use their power or not?

Anybody with powers uses them. I did myself when I was umpiring Softball, made an error, and used my power to ignore my incorrect decision and let it stand. I was the powerful fish in a small pond.



Is that the sort of thing you mean, or would you like to be more specific as to what you mean here. I cannot read your mind and decide what you mean by powerful people. You may accuse me, as is your fallback position on this thread when anybody posts something you don't like, of being too far off topic.


Learn to live within the thread parameters you have insisted on and don't change the subject when it suits you.



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Anybody with powers uses them. I did myself when I was umpiring Softball, made an error, and used my power to ignore my incorrect decision and let it stand. I was the powerful fish in a small pond.



Is that the sort of thing you mean, or would you like to be more specific as to what you mean here. I cannot read your mind and decide what you mean by powerful people. You may accuse me, as is your fallback position on this thread when anybody posts something you don't like, of being too far off topic.


Learn to live within the thread parameters you have insisted on and don't change the subject when it suits you.



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By powerful people, I meant like people who had a net worth of hundreds of millions or more. Or people who control various industries, countries, multinational companies. You know, powerful people.

Anyway, thanks for your straightforward answer.
"Anybody with powers uses them."

So we're in agreement on that point.
Your common sense tells you the same thing my common sense tells me.
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Anyway, thanks for your straight forward answer. "Anybody with powers uses them."

So we're in agreement on that point.
Your common sense tells you the same thing my common sense tells me.

Yes, and...


Is that it? Anybody with powers does use them I doubt that anybody would disagree. Just as nobody disagrees that the Canadian constitution contains the words you cited. The world would be unworkable otherwise. What would be the point of Police without powers? Or Parliaments, Or elections (people power)? Or Company Boards (often rich people)?



Of course, you are not using the use of power as the abuse of power, the misuse of power, the illegal use of power, or the covert use of power are you?


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Yes, and...


Is that it? Anybody with powers does use them I doubt that anybody would disagree. Just as nobody disagrees that the Canadian constitution contains the words you cited. The world would be unworkable otherwise. What would be the point of Police without powers? Or Parliaments, Or elections (people power)? Or Company Boards (often rich people)?



Of course, you are not using the use of power as the abuse of power, the misuse of power, the illegal use of power, or the covert use of power are you?


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Yes, that's it. Other's have avoided answering because they don't want to agree with me on anything, no matter what. I suspect you have now instilled some bravery into them, so they might answer as you did.

That's 'it' because I'm not debating the use of her power since there's no direct evidence of it. I said my common sense tells me people use their power. So I can believe she uses her power without making a claim that she does. A claim requires evidence. Since there's none, common sense is all that's left with which to form an opinion about whether The Crown uses its power.

So, to get back to the real topic of whether the Queen actually possess top power in Canada, have a look at Post 366 on page 10.
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I did and already responded to it. Your memory must be failing. It's just your usual "but... but...but... the Constitution, and Canada could do exactly what Australia did, and the Queen would not stop it.


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I did and already responded to it. Your memory must be failing. It's just your usual "but... but...but... the Constitution, and Canada could do exactly what Australia did, and the Queen would not stop it.


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I asked some specific questions. You didn't answer one of them.

You just responded with some irrelevant Australian example.

ETA: Of course if you're one who believes she possesses no power, then you needn't answer.
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I asked some specific questions. You didn't answer one of them.

You just responded with some irrelevant Australian example.

Which applies in Canada if wanted. Nothing would unite Canadians more than an attempt by Her Royal Highness to interfere in their political life. Indeed her own oath of office prevents her doing so.


Don't you get that the Queen rules at the consent of the ruled and has no real power? Rulers by right of birth in the past have discovered that when they try something, they are out or in some cases dead. That is the practicality of the situation that you refuse to acknowledge despite dozens of examples dotting the many pages of this thread.



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Which applies in Canada if wanted.


Don't you get that the Queen rules at the consent of the ruled and has no real power? Rulers by right of birth in the past have discovered that when they try something, they are out or in some cases dead. That is the practicality of the situation that you refuse to acknowledge despite dozens of examples dotting the many pages of this thread.



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Nope, he isn't interested in anything but the wording of the Canadian constitution. He has no idea what it really means or how it got there. He's done zero research so far and does not intend to do any now or in future. It' an exercise solely in "LOOK AT THESE WORDS THEY ARE ENABLING THE BILDERBERGS THE QUEEN IS DARTH VADER AND A MEMBER OF THE STAR CHAMBER ERMAGERD THAT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING WRONG IN MY LIFE GOTTA GET MA GUNZZZ!"

Or something like that. Committed to deliberate ignorance.
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Nope, he isn't interested in anything but the wording of the Canadian constitution.

Yes, it is all he has, so that is as far as he can go, as his speculation about the Bilderbergs and the covert use of POWER died out of town, and he can't go there. He has no evidence of any examples where the Queen has intervened in Canadian life (well, there are always her visits and taking a bunch of flowers from a child, and she is on some of their stamps), but pretty much up a Blind Alley now.


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Which applies in Canada if wanted. Nothing would unite Canadians more than an attempt by Her Royal Highness to interfere in their political life. Indeed her own oath of office prevents her doing so.


Don't you get that the Queen rules at the consent of the ruled and has no real power? Rulers by right of birth in the past have discovered that when they try something, they are out or in some cases dead. That is the practicality of the situation that you refuse to acknowledge despite dozens of examples dotting the many pages of this thread.

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I know we're told the Queen rules at the 'consent of the ruled'. But what does "at the consent of" really mean? It simply means the people are OK with it. It doesn't say anything about power. The words 'rules' and 'ruled' do.

We're talking modern times where monarchs are in little danger of assassination. We in western society have, for the most part, eliminated the possibility of an armed insurrection.

Our society is founded and governed by laws. Laws are words. Those words have meaning. The Con is the supreme law and clearly states that authority of and over Canada remains with the Queen. In addition, the Sovereign has rights and privileges than no other human in the Commonwealth has. In my book, that's power.

All the counter arguments here have consisted of stories, Convention, precedent etc. None of which has any teeth. The teeth are all in the Constitution. All the precedent, custom and Convention that you read about and has been offered here as counter argument, is just cover for this fact.

When you parse all that stuff, you find weasel words. They'll tell you the Queen has no real political power. That's true. But only because the word 'political' is in there. She doesn't have the power to meddle in elections or the day to day stuff. Her power is above that level, as is stated in the Constitution.

"The Queen has no real political power" is not the same as "The Queen has no real power". The first is true, the second would be a lie.
And they never openly lie like that. Instead they stick in these weasel words to make the statement true. But it's not the whole truth.

That's one small example of how they make people believe the Queen is just a figurehead.
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Itchy Boy, I suggest you look up “not even wrong” which is what you have been throughout this thread.

Don’t bother, here’s a link for you:


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong
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"The Queen has no real political power" is not the same as "The Queen has no real power". The first is true, the second would be a lie.


And they never openly lie like that. Instead they stick in these weasel words to make the statement true. But it's not the whole truth.

That's one small example of how they make people believe the Queen is just a figurehead.

OK.



1. What other powers does the Queen have and use on a regular basis.


2. Twice you have said "they" do this and that. Who are these "they" of which you speak, and how do "they"operate on a day to day basis and confuse people.


If it is members of this forum you are speaking about, well, I accepted limitations to the Queens "rule" and "power" decades before this thread started, and these particular they have nothing to do with it. In fact every member who has posted on this thread, independent of each other, have reached the same conclusions and probably also many years ago.




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OK.



1. What other powers does the Queen have and use on a regular basis.


2. Twice you have said "they" do this and that. Who are these "they" of which you speak, and how do "they"operate on a day to day basis and confuse people.


If it is members of this forum you are speaking about, well, I accepted limitations to the Queens "rule" and "power" decades before this thread started, and these particular they have nothing to do with it. In fact every member who has posted on this thread, independent of each other, have reached the same conclusions and probably also many years ago.




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1. All the Queen's powers are written in the Constitution.
Article 9 says she's the boss.
Article 15 says she's the head of the Armed Forces (in case anybody gets any ideas). Then there are other powers such as Royal Assent.

I've stated over and over, I can't speak about their use as there is no evidence. My OPINION, based on my read of human nature is that powerful people use their power and the Queen, IN MY OPINION, is no exception.

If, how, when or why she uses it - the details - I don't know.
That's all I have to say about her use of power.

2. 'They 1' refers to the monarchy's public relations people. ETA: who dreamed up the figurehead scenario
'They 2' refers to all the pundits, constitutional scholars, etc who believe in the figurehead scenario and write about it. Like those links Norman A. posted.

Exactly how and when the figurehead paradigm came about, I don't know. But it's mainly the Conventions that propagate it.

Maybe I'll do a post to explain how I see the relationship between the written and unwritten parts of the Constitution and how those two parts work together to create the illusion of a figurehead.
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