Nice...finally something.
We do all this ourselves without any bureaucracy of foreign govt advice and behind the scenes diplomatic manuvers you can't guess about. But I sure can. You think are as free as the USA.
There is most important Ceremonial kow-tow to a foregen Queen you supported against us, to confuse the populace. We don't have the press rules forced from England, either. So, we know more. We pay big buck and better to know more.
We cannot have hate speech, ever. Only hate deeds. We rebelled. And you think this all is an advantage but we went to war about it more than once.
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The Governor-General is The Queen's representative in Canada. As such, he or she performs the same constitutional role in Canada as The Queen does in the United Kingdom. (do you think the Queen and her wealth doesn't influence GB?)
The Queen maintains direct contact with the Governor-General, although she delegates executive power to the Governor-General in virtually every respect.
Since 1 October 2010 The Queen has been represented by His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston.
The Governor-General's role is built on four major themes: representing the Crown in Canada;
representing Canadians abroad ( you are not representing yourself even) and promoting their sovereignty; celebrating excellence and bringing Canadians together.
As the representative of The Queen in Canada, the Governor-General
summons, opens and ends sessions (oh, there is real power there that you are unaware of.) of Parliament, reads the Speech from the Throne, gives Royal Assent ( more power that can be withheld, check your history) to bills passed by the House of Commons and the Senate, signs State documents, and
dissolves Parliament (if the Crown objects in some future conflict, Canada is fucked legally) for an election. The Governor-General also presides over the swearing-in of the Prime Minister, the Chief Justice of Canada and cabinet ministers. (or will refuse)
At the request of the Canadian Prime Minister, the Governor-General travels to foreign countries building bridges of friendship and understanding. At home, the Governor-General welcomes world leaders and
receives the credentials of high commissioners and ambassadors who represent their countries in Canada. (you don't even have that Diplomatic status, the Crown does)
---- So discuss this one.
Seems to me there is no individual sovereignty at all, since you are Subjects of the Canadian Crown. And in fact the question of National Sovereignty is still not settled in International Law.
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/sovereignty
The strictly legal meaning of the term sovereignty should be differentiated from more popular usages which are sometimes employed out of intellectual fuzziness and sometimes to extract the extra public-relations mileage deriving from a presumably ancient and hallowed concept like sovereignty. Recurring Canada-US
differences over Canada's claims to sovereignty over the arctic waters and the Northwest Passage (see
ARCTIC SOVEREIGNTY), and contentions that "economic sovereignty" or "cultural sovereignty" may be endangered in any Canada-US
FREE TRADE negotiations, can be seen from this point of view to have a high rhetorical-political content.