You, know when you look at the money in Canada and see the Queen, it seems like a quaint vestige ... but it turns out QEII of the UK is really is the head of the governments up there!In fact, she just (through her governor general) closed down parliament to give the PM time to get his ducks in a row. Seems the Quebec bloc, Liberals and some other parties had enough votes to oust the Conservatives, who have been running the place for quite a while now.
Isn't that how parliamentary democracy is supposed to work?
Ah well, even though I've written in this space about my jealousy of not being included in the Commonwealth so we can play cricket, non-membership has some privileges. But to put it more bluntly even England has an advantage that Canada does not:
The Queen never interferes with the government there!!
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I wish she'd shut our government down about seven years ago! I bet she does too! She *must* think Bush is a complete imbecile, no? But maybe the wait was worth it, and maybe Obama can clean up the mess and start building for the future again.
Let's put money on when we think Obama and QEII will meet. I'm going to say that it'll be in the second half of his first year in office. She won't want to appear eager but she'll certainly be anxious to meet him I think.
Yes, that trip that BHO made to Europe and beyond during the summer wasn't a huge plus for him -- maybe it's time for Her Majesty to visit North America?
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