PSCI 2003 Lecture Notes - Jacques Parizeau, Distinct Society, Edmund Burke
24 Mar 2013
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Outdated, elitist, british-only heritage of our heritage. Queen lives far away, rarely visits, and. Queen and governor general as has questionable heirs unifying symbolic head of state. Courts and legal system based on embedded invisible crown so everything would require a complete overhaul. Would require provincial unanimity and popular support. Australia attempted to do the same in 1999 and the referendum failed with 55% against because there was no clear idea of what would replace the idea of the crown. Would threaten provincial and federal equality because the governor general and. Lieutenant governor answer to the crown currently, and demoting the position of the. Lieutenant governor to answer to the governor general would not be in the best interests of provincial powers. Would affect relations with aboriginal nations, because the royal proclamation that gave. Aboriginals rights to their land involved a relationship to the crown and not the federal government. Unwritten conventions can evolve naturally by consensus and incremental change.
