Time for a management change
As Queen Elizabeth II's record reign winds down to its inevitable conclusion, Canadians are thinking about who will be our next head of state. Canada is a constitutional monarchy and Queen Elizabeth is Canada's head of state. As she is a very busy lady, Elizabeth delegates queening to Canada's Governor General. At one time the British Monarchs chose their proxy from a pool of unemployed British aristocrats who might benefit from being thousands of miles away from their liege, but these days the Monarch is even too busy to choose Governors General, so lets Canada's Prime Ministers pick who will represent them. Being that Elizabeth is 95 as this is written, Canada can expect a new monarch sooner than later. For the same reason Barbados, another of the Queen's realms, have chosen to convert from a constitutional monarchy to a republic. Which has some Canadians wondering whether Canada should do the same. Not that Canada has anyth...