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I've closed all my social media accounts and ended my US subscriptions, and I'm boycotting American goods and services as much as possible. I am not going to feed their dumpster fire with my money anymore.

But I kept the New York Times Cooking app. One has to eat.
 
I usually do not want to get too political, but considering the current geopolitical and social situations, I could not help but notice when posters appeared for an upcoming anti-Trump protest on Saturday, January 18 outside the US Consulate. One correction: The consulate address is 360 University Avenue, across the street:
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Bayer said:
I've closed all my social media accounts and ended my US subscriptions, and I'm boycotting American goods and services as much as possible. I am not going to feed their dumpster fire with my money anymore.

But I kept the New York Times Cooking app. One has to eat.
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I've thought about what this would be like, to divorce myself from American " goods and services as much as possible ". I keep reminding myself that more than half of America is in Trump-depression as well. One thing though, Canadians are waking up to the fact our very fragility as a sovereign nation, and what we need and can to do about it. For this at least, we can thank Donald J. Trump.
 
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Admiral Beez said:
When Donald Trump proposed buying Greenland, Denmark’s King Frederik X responded subtly but firmly, signaling Greenland’s importance by altering the royal Coat of Arms. Now, with Trump musing about annexing Canada, our King Charles III remains silent. While objections from our head of government and premiers are welcome, shouldn’t our head of State make a statement? A soft gesture—like King Charles opening Parliament in March—would affirm his commitment. New Canadians pledge allegiance to the King; shouldn’t that allegiance be mutual?
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I agree soft diplomacy might be beneficial. Something like opening Parliament is an accepted part of his regular role, but doing anything out of the norm might backlash. Too much of the US population already view us as 'subjects', not citizens and would no doubt accuse us of not really being sovereign. Denmark, including Greenland, is a monarchy, not part of a commonwealth. Internally, Quebec gets pissy every time something like that happens.
 
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He’s our head of state and should step up. We may not feel we need him, we may want to be rid of the the monarchy entirely, but HM should think he’s responsible to us. Perhaps this inaction will push us towards Australian-like republicanism. I’d be okay with that, but until we have a different head of state, I want the guy in the job to stand up for Canada, or step aside.
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I don't think it occurs to most Canadians that the King should take any role in Canadian affairs.
 
He is "the" head of state, but he's not "our" head of state. He's England's, and really has nothing to do with Canada.
 
Admiral Beez said:
That's aspirational, not factual. Just participate in any citizenship ceremony, any federal or provincial opening of the legislature, any armed forces event or just buy a postal stamp with cash, and odds are you'll encounter our head of state.

I would support Canada following Barbados' example, where in November 2021 the country transitioned to a republic within the Commonwealth. The Governor-General then became the first President of Barbados after being elected by the country's Parliament. As a Brit-born Canuck that would work for me, keeping the historical ties of the Commonwealth, while breaking the final chord of monarchy. And then, in this case I would want Canada's President Mary Simon to softly remind the world and ourselves that Canada is not for the taking.
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Or, we could just leave it as it is.
 
Admiral Beez said:
When Donald Trump proposed buying Greenland, Denmark’s King Frederik X responded subtly but firmly, signaling Greenland’s importance by altering the royal Coat of Arms. Now, with Trump musing about annexing Canada, our King Charles III remains silent. While objections from our head of government and premiers are welcome, shouldn’t our head of State make a statement? A soft gesture—like King Charles opening Parliament in March—would affirm his commitment. New Canadians pledge allegiance to the King; shouldn’t that allegiance be mutual?
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It's ceremonial, but even that bugs a lot of Canadians.
 
Admiral Beez said:
Given the near impossibility of a national consensus on the matter, I expect that's what we'll do. We'll have King George VII of Canada (William's son) before we come to any national agreement on what should replace the monarchy.
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I agree. Most people have no concept of what the change would entail. Many think it would simply be a matter of telling the G-G 'thanks for coming', then turning Rideau Hall into a casino or something.

There are several forms of republic, all have their pros and cons.

At the end of the day - for what gain? To make us feel all growed up?

When parliament can bring it self to return democracy to the House and away from the unelected minions in the PMO - permanently, not just procedural rules. then perhaps we can talk.
 
I assume the Mods are busily thinking on whether to change this THREAD TITLE ( to Current and Former President Donald J Trump's UnitedStates of America...) or whether to freeze this one and start afresh.
 
DSCToronto said:
I assume the Mods are busily thinking on whether to change this THREAD TITLE ( to Current and Former President Donald J Trump's UnitedStates of America...) or whether to freeze this one and start afresh.
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We still have a week ... anything can happen
 
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