More Canadians want to reconsider ties to monarchy
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MONTREAL – Just over one year after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, a new poll suggests a growing number of Canadians believe it’s time to reconsider the country’s ties to the monarchy. Data re...

Reconsider if they want, but the position is locked into the constitution.

Constitutions can be changed.

In theory? Sure. In reality, nope. No one is going to spend the political capital on this.

We’d still need an executive, even if only ceremonial. Getting consensus on that would be almost impossible.

IF we somehow managed to get to some sort of negotiating framework, we’d still need agreement from the feds and all of the premiers. You can bet that each of them will bring a laundry list of things they want to change in the constitution, and at least some of them will be ‘poison pills’ to kill the proceedings.

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