Between me being busy with the end of the semester and the American media not caring, I haven't been able to keep up the shallow familiarity with Canadian politics that I'd like to have. However, Dr. Boli comes to my rescue yet again:
“Canada is a constitutional monarchy. The real power rests with the Queen of Canada, who at any moment could squash her government like a bug…
“To understand why the Queen is so inactive in the daily affairs of her government, we need only recall that the Queen of Canada is also the Queen of fifteen other realms around the world. Canada does not have her undivided attention. While the Canadians are having their adorable little parliamentary crisis, Her Majesty’s other subjects have equally pressing demands on her time. Her British subjects expect her to review a number of local cheeses over the next few days. Her Australian subjects are once again threatening to pitch her over the rail and declare a republic. The Church of Scotland wants her, as head of the Kirk, to declare Anglicanism a satanic heresy. Her subjects in Tuvalu are opening their nation’s first strip mall and wonder whether she can spare a second cousin once removed for this auspicious occasion. Her subjects in Belize have sent her an electronic musical Christmas card and want to know how she liked it.
“The Queen, in other words, leads a busy life, and she has little time for squashing governments.”
It all makes so much more sense now. (Follow the link; there's more.)
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