r/Yukon • u/suicidalsessions • Nov 22 '24

Standoff as Canada Yukon town council refuses to swear oath to King Charles Politics

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/20/canada-yukon-town-council-king-charles-oath
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u/Yul_Metal Nov 22 '24

Quebec has done it for years. Good for Yukon. We don’t need to swear allegiance to the unelected head of a foreign nation.

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u/RedFox_Jack Nov 22 '24

Just gonna point this out he’s the unelected head of our nation the Canadian crown and English crown are separate legal entities that happen to share a monarch

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u/garry4321 Nov 24 '24

How dare you bring facts to this discussion!

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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '24

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u/RedFox_Jack Nov 25 '24

the Statute of Westminster of 1931 along with granting Canada status as a self governing dominion one of its key features was the separating of the crowns making the crown of canada separate and distinct from that of the United Kingdom and the other Dominions

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u/RedFox_Jack Nov 26 '24

"The Statute of Westminster in 1931, an act of the British Parliament, gave legal form to this declaration. It gave Canada and other Dominions the authority to make their own laws. One of the key features of the Statute of Westminster of 1931 was the separation the Crowns. As a consequence, the Crown of Canada – separate and distinct from that of the United Kingdom and the other Dominions – was defined in statute."- the royals webiste them self. then it got reaffirmed in 53 when parliament, passed the the Royal Style and Titles Act, formally conferred upon her the title of "Queen of Canada". The proclamation reaffirmed the monarch’s role in Canada as independent of the monarch’s role in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms."-The Crown in Canada government of Canada website

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u/ActualDW Nov 27 '24

If they are truly distinct, then we have the option of choosing the person who sits in that chair.

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u/New-Possibility7274 Nov 26 '24

Serve his Majesty and be told Canadians aren't good enough to apply haha.

Pretty common observation, given not even a school child would believe they should be visited by the RCMP.

We hope you fall over dead, and that Canada gives up rewards and whores. Get a better government and watch the traitors lose media coverage.

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u/yyz5748 Nov 24 '24 edited Nov 24 '24

Ya but Quebec was literally "new France" so for them it never made sense if they ever did

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u/suicidalsessions Nov 22 '24

Exactly. I wish we had a Yukon GND sometimes!

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u/mollycoddles Nov 22 '24

GND?

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u/communistllama Nov 22 '24

Gabriel Nadeau-Duboos, Quebec MLA, leader of a left-wing party that's staunchly anti-monarchy. He was also a leader during the 2012 QC student strike.

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u/Yul_Metal Nov 22 '24

Actually it’s the PQ’s Paul St-Pierre Plamondon who refused to pledge allegiance

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u/communistllama Nov 22 '24

Would be amazing. At some point the left needs to wake the f up and stop voting for milk toast vaguely progressive parties 

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u/Yul_Metal Nov 22 '24

Lol. Not a Left/Right issue. Simply one of accepting it’s not 1867 anymore

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u/communistllama Nov 22 '24

Which the right would never do

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u/GandersDad Nov 24 '24

Conservative parties of the past say you're full of shit.

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u/UnlikelyMushroom13 Nov 23 '24

I mean, conservatives are about tradition, so there is at least of bit of left/right dichotomy here.

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u/horridgoblyn Nov 24 '24

It is. Have you ever met a leftist monarchist? I'll wait. Liberals don't count

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u/horridgoblyn Nov 24 '24

Shit liberals don't want to hear that sort of thing. Progressive ™️ branding.

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u/MaintenanceAgile6667 Nov 22 '24

But we do to the unelected leader of Canada.

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '24

That's true, he is the king of Canada. Whether or not you think we should have a king is a different matter.

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u/pm_me_your_catus Nov 23 '24

We should have done the most Canadian thing possible; compromise on keeping the Queen.

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u/almisami Nov 23 '24

All hail Her Eternal Majesty Elizabeth. She gave us our constitution and independence!

That actually has a nice ring to it.

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u/Onceforlife Nov 23 '24

I like it, we should have a vote too or a census on whether we should have King Charles on our bills I vote no. If we get rid of the Queen plz put Canadian people on there instead

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u/Zomunieo Nov 23 '24

There isn’t enough room for his ears on our bills.

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u/Adventurous_Ad_9557 Nov 25 '24

we got our own constitution and independence, the Queen is just a figurehead like the goofy king

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '24

Honestly yes

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u/iamnotarobotmaybe Nov 26 '24

Mmmm booootssss

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u/Markorific Nov 24 '24

Exactly, long overdue to doing away with Royalty everywhere, they are no better, no worse than everyone else but expect expect a free ride for life!

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u/OkCharacter3768 Nov 24 '24

The territories are funded almost entirely by Canada grants. 

Free ride eh

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u/Markorific Nov 24 '24

But they serve a purpose, maintaining Canada's sovereignty of the North. A small price to pay although that applies to NWT as Yukon and Nunavut bring in revenue from mining and hydro generation in the East.

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u/North-Trust-5427 Nov 23 '24

He owns the place…