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Yes, I was born in Australia but know that Canada is part of the 'Commonwealth of Nations' I thought Canada was a Republic but looked it up and saw that it still is a Constitutional Monarchy with the Queen as the Head of State. I was going to move to Canada in the late 1980's when I had a Canadian girlfriend.
Technically she is our Head of State - the Governor General is the Queen's representative in Canada and most people like it when any of the Royals visit, especially William and Kate.
You might think you are an independent country but people see Canada as being the 'little cousin' of the U.S.A. This is understandable seeing population difference and economic and military differences. I'd rather live in Canada because you have universal health care and it seems like a more compassionate country. If I lived in Canada I would like to live in Quebec. They make a lot of movies in British Columbia. Canada would be too cold to live in.Technically she is our Head of State - the Governor General is the Queen's representative in Canada and most people like it when any of the Royals visit, especially William and Kate.
But - we are an independent country
We survive here in Winnipeg and there are times it is minus 40 with a wind chill!
I was reading some book recently and they reckon during the Prohibition of alcohol in the United Stated there was a great deal of 'sly grog' running from Canada to America. Also something about cigarettes having a different tax or no tax so you brought alcohol down to America and brought cigarettes up to Canada. That is surprising that Canada only got its own Constitution in 1982. You have a Governor General who is supposed to be the Queen's representive. We had a Constitiounal Crisis in Australia in 1975 when the Governor General John Kerr dismissed the Whitlam govenrnment(some say at the behest of the C.I.A. because Whitlam threatened to close Pine Gap and another base and not be such a lackey to America.)We survive here in Winnipeg and there are times it is minus 40 with a wind chill!
I just looked it up - in 1982 we got our own Constitution which was signed into law by Queen Elizabeth that same year.
Yes - USA is the "Sleeping Giant" to our South and thankfully we are allies - we have the longest "undefended" border in the world
I just copied and pasted the following from Wikipedia:
"The International Boundary is commonly referred to as the world's longest undefended border, but this is true only in the military sense, as civilian law enforcement is present. It is illegal to cross the border outside border controls. Everyone crossing the border must be checked. The relatively low level of security measures stands in contrast to that of the United States – Mexico border (one-third as long as the Canada–U.S. border), which is actively patrolled by U.S. customs and immigration personnel to prevent illegal migration and drug trafficking."
Good to see you. Your penmanship must be beautiful.
Hi Spidey, it's so nice to see you again! =0)
....that's cool, should be a fun show-especially if she doesn't take herself to seriously....I'm going to see Tiffany in a tiny show in my neighborhood tonight.
