Carney says Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor should be removed from line of succession
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-mountbatten-windsor-9.7118464
Carney says Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor should be removed from line of succession
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-mountbatten-windsor-9.7118464
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Crazy idea. Lets see if they’ll let Trump take his place if Trump promises to resign from office immediately.
Let him be a Prince and tell him he’ll be King one day. I dont think he understands the line of succession so as long as we can tell him there is a chance then he might roll with it.
I agree with the idea. Hopefully it’s a simple process. It’s very unlikely he becomes king but I would like it ensure it’s impossible
So it can be done but it requires the same process as was recently done to eliminate male primogeniture and allow the Crown to pass to the firstborn daughter.
Every country with the monarchy has to independently pass laws according to their own internal mechanisms for constitutional amendment to change the act of succession in each country at the same time.
What fun.
I want to see Canada take an absolutely iconoclastic stance on royal succession: let’s work to make the head of state embodied in an individual that is *not* the same individual was the current head of state of the UK. When the King of Canada passes let us have the Crown pass to someone other than the next head of state of the UK, and have our own head of state.
For absolute *raucous* disruption, let’s amend the succession process such that each Province, Territory, and First Nation can nominate a candidate and then *the nominees elect from the selected candidates*.
Yes, I know this would be *wild* and be a *certain* recipe for drama, but shouldn’t the selection of a monarch be monumental?
This is good to hear, lets then hope he doesn’t assist the war effort of two governments deeply implicated in the files and its cover up.
Australia has said the same and I think NZ has as well, so if the UK does as well, I think that will carry the rest of the Commonwealth Realms.
Australia seems to be in favour and the UK government has brought it up. Should be fairly easy to do if everyone agrees.
How would you guys feel with replacing the British royal family with a Canadian one? Somebody who is connected to the highest levels of Canadian power and society and is highly respected. But it can’t just be not what individual it has to be consistent across generations of their family. As well it has to be somebody who can represent all Canadians both the English and the French. So coming to my mind is to make Justin Trudeau the inaugural first King of Canada that is actually Canadian. Succession can pass down through his family after that.
It’s more of a moral precedent than anything else since it’s extremely unlikely that he’d ever become king (being 8th in line and in his 60s etc.) but It’s still a precedent that I’d largely agree with. People have been removed from the line of succession for much less egregious reasons, so I think removing people for committing felony offenses would be an easy & non-controversial precedent to uphold.
I want the monarchy abolished altogether. Having said that, it is impossible to disagree with this, so I’m both glad he said it and slightly suspicious of the motives in doing so. It strikes me as an attempt to get a quick comms win and change the channel from this week’s controversy, just like David Eby’s surprise permanent DST announcement. Which I say as a BC NDP supporter.