| From: | Gurth gurth@******.nl |
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| Subject: | UCAS - How would it happen? |
| Date: | Sat, 7 Oct 2000 12:36:43 +0200 |
was...
> I was under the impression that Canada was on it's own - an autonomous,
> independant, self-governing entity - complete with parlament and prime
> minister. It was my understanding that canada has full independence
> from the brits (in so far as any government has it's own independence.)
I'm not a Canadian, but it seems pretty straightforward to me: you can be
king/queen of more than one country. Elizabeth II is queen of the United
Kingdom (or whatever the right term is in this case) but also of Canada,
and of Australia, and probably of a bunch of other independent countries
as well -- none of which necessarily has anything to do with the UK
anymore even despite sharing a head of state.
It would be like Bill Clinton getting citizenship in another country, in
addition to his US citizenship, and running for president there. He'd be
president of both the US and of that other country at the same time.
(Provided neither has laws prohibiting this sort of thing, of course.)
> Am I wrong? If so, and the brittish monarch is the official head of the
> canadian state, what role did they play in the creation of UCAS in the
> shadowrun timeline? How does the brittish government tie into UCAS's
> gov't?
Only the reigning king or queen at the time would be involved, I would
guess, and even then probably only to sign the Canadian laws that deal
with unification with the USA.
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