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Canada is no longer part of the British Empire. Neither is the US, since the end of the War of Independence. That’s what independence means.
by robotresearcher 1y ago
Canada is no longer part of the British Empire. Neither is the US, since the end of the War of Independence. That’s what independence means.
- bobsmooth 1y agoGreat, tell ozim that.
- ozim 1y agoWell I did not expect the thread to be that good ... but I am definitely going to get popcorn out to eat while I read all the people telling me that :)
- robotresearcher 1y agoHa! Yeah, Canadians are quick and eager to describe their independence from the UK, relatively fresh as it is :) Americans had 200 year dramatic and violent head start and everyone has figured that out by now. The details of Canada’s status are understandably less well known.
- robotresearcher 1y agoSo your question was rhetorical. Not totally obvious to me, and I answered it as if it was a normal question.
- platevoltage 1y agoThen why on earth does Canada still put British monarchs on their money? Follow up question, why doesn't the US do it?
- Sprocklem 1y agoCanada doesn't. It puts Canadian monarchs on its coins. The fact that they are physically the same person as the British monarch is incidental.
- platevoltage 1y agoI’ve been to Canada, and the people strangely have a wildly different accent than their own monarchs for some reason.
- School-Cotton 1y agoThe vast majority of people in the UK also have a wildly different accent from their monarchs.
- robotresearcher 1y agoTo be complete, Elizabeth is still on a lot of Canadian money, and she was the Queen of the UK with dominion over Canada until 1984, when she became Queen of Canada, and the UK crown lost dominion over Canada. So Elizabeth was a British monarch on Canadian money, and Canadian monarch on Canadian money, uniquely. Of course she is no longer put on newly made money.