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> How do you ensure that the Governor General is apolitical? How do you ensure the monarch is apolitical?[0] How do you ensure that the person effectively wie
by dane-pgp 4y ago
> How do you ensure that the Governor General is apolitical?
How do you ensure the monarch is apolitical?[0] How do you ensure that the person effectively wielding the monarch's powers under the current system is apolitical? That isn't even a claimed feature of the current system, because those powers are wielded by the PM who is decidedly not apolitical.
The only concrete change of introducing a Governor General would be that some powers are removed from the PM and given to someone with a democratic mandate to (rarely) use them. These powers would be just as political as they are now, except they would be properly shared between two people, providing a separation of powers that is common outside of autocracies.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen's_consent#Vetting_of_bills_under_consent_procedure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen's_consent#Vetting_of_bil...