Canada, the Queen, and me 

American/Canadian/Chinese should be mentioned.

Check out National Park Diaries

He’s only gonna talk about the ones in British Columbia for Canada

I’ve always thought the way America perseveres our national parks is one of our great Crown Jewels of which every American ought be proud

I think it was national geography that stated that Russia had the second best national park system.

I’ve been asking Brits about it and they all find it odd. There is a scene in Pink Floyd's the Wall where the teacher has a picture of the queen and it’s clearly supposed to indicate that he’s some kinda psycho.

I've only ever seen them on cop shows set in the olden days, onm the walll of an office

I think it would certainly be seen as excessive in the UK. The monarchy here is really more of a piece of cultural tradition here than any kind of political issue, republicanism is such a minority fringe that mainstream politics generally pays it no mind. I'd say even the concept of patriotism in the UK isn't particularly tied to the royal family, especially as it's often devolved to the regional countries of England, Scotland and Wales, who haven't had seperate royal families for centuries.

Just a short anecdote: I'm an American from Upstate New York, just a couple of hours from the Canadian boarder. One time, when I was about 12 years old, my family and I visited some quaint Canadian town, and I remember being surprised to see the Queen's portrait in a café. I pointed it out to my family, but they didn't seem to care (typical Americans I suppose). However, I certainly did, and reflecting back upon this moment, it definitely sparked my interest in this topic.

As an American I immediately associated it with the flags obsession. However I guess if I were an old Canadian who wants to feel different from my rebellious counterparts, flaunting my devotion is the only real option.

What you say has two sides. One is that the rising Indian economy has made us a nation less dependent on the UK. Also the geo political consequences of the commonwealth is decreasing with thr current government focusing more on the quad and bricks groups. But we still have a large Indian diaspora in the UK and a large number of student go there to study every year. So yes it is complicated 🙂

The Hindoo extremists in power right now are in the “we poor victims” and “you bad guys” mode!… They are attacking the Muslims because of the Mughal Empire and blaming the British for the British Empire!… They got their “you owe me” hands out!😊

Agree. We wanna be friends for everyone who is interested to be loyal friends to us. UK included.. So i see it as no different a thing than being a member or SARC or BRICKS.

why do the commonwealth games and cricket matter? do you still want to be colonised?

@@arunodaybhattacharjee7001 The connection that India gets with the anglosphere from the commonwealth is extremely important for the containment of China.

It goes beyond just dog breeds. For example, it was widely known that pork rinds were one of George H.W. Bush's favorite foods and that he was a fan of the game horseshoes. During his presidency, sales of both increased significantly. Similarly, President Eisenhower helped to popularize golf in the United States (along with Bing Crosby, of course.) JFK helped make rocking chairs more popular after it was reported that he had one for treating his back pain due to Addison's Disease (at his doctor's recommendation).

It's funny that he's talking about A queen when he is A QUEEN.

@@bocawilliams9200 how’s that funny?

@@Hugh_de_Mortimer Because it's a play on words, dummie! A Queen is obviously a ruler of a country but a queen can also mean a gay person and this guy is gay. Learn how to be funny, man!

@@hotwax9376 The pork rinds story was a bit of misinformation to make the patrician Bush seem more a man of the people. In reality, Poppy's favorite snack was supposedly popcorn.

My sister (a Malaysian citizen) told me that she and her friends from other nations in the Commonwealth were able to vote in the Brexit referendum (they all voted "remain", obviously). So I guess I've believed for a while that the Commonwealth was more significant than its portrayal in this video.

@@ShaunCheah Only British citizens could vote in the Brexit referendum. Does your sister have dual citizenship? Maybe there are some exceptions but commonwealth citizens definitely couldn't vote

@@ShaunCheah _My sister (a Malaysian citizen) told me that she and her friends from other nations in the Commonwealth were able to vote in the Brexit referendum (they all voted "remain", obviously)_ There's no way that's true unless she's a British citizen.

@@dannyarcher6370 It's very likely that I misheard or misunderstood, then. I'll ask her for clarification next time we speak.

It's funny that he's talking about A queen when he is A QUEEN. You know, cuz he is a homosmexual!

JJ: wins an award Also JJ: makes sure everyone knows

just another award winning video

Well one thing's for sure, he's not quiet quitting.

Oh my god. The USA is Lindsay Bluth. And Canada is Buster Bluth. It all makes sense now 😆

Lmao

true true

Sorry there bud

Canadians pay less than a dollar each person each year for the monarch, so being a good boy can pay off.

I think those people just dont understand how the british government works.

True, but wasn’t the Mau Mau uprising largely suppressed in her name?

Yeah, except no one alive today had any part in colonialism (except maybe the very oldest British people). You don't inherit guilt.

@@rubeusignis1293 I think that despite having let go of most of their colonies, Britains still has colonialist policies these days. It changed but didn't go away

@@adrienrenaux6211 What policies do you mean?

Lol, something like this just happened to me, I’m a Mexican immigrant living in Canada, I’m in high school, I attend a white majority rural school, we were having a debate in class about the monarchy and wether it was good to abolish it or not and some of the guys (they were Canadian) didn’t even know that Queen Elizabeth II is the head of state of Canada, like, some of them are so oblivious about their own country, when he said he didn’t know he laughed at it and the whole class did it too because, ignorance is soooo funny

I remember once overhearing a conversation in college where a guy had just come back from Germany, and his friend asked him, with sincere curiosity if they still had a Nazi government. And the friend replied with great hesitation, “I’m not… sure.”

@@JJMcCullough I ... wha ... I, uh ... um. Okay y'know what -- props to those guys, for the one asking such a question, & the other being willing to state uncertainty instead of committing to an answer if he didn't feel he had firm info. I mean, those are definitely things people should be doing, in general & especially in college. Yep, that's my takeaway & I'm clinging -- I mean, sticking to it 😆

I mean that's what you go to college to do, to learn about how the world works

@@caseyjarmes You shouldn't be completely ignorant about important historical events before getting there. I was in a 2nd year Canadian history class, we were getting some historiography about the Seven Years' War leading up to the Battle of Plains of Abraham and someone asked if they were fighting by Napoleonic Code... In 1759.

yeah that was unexpected lol

Lol, Ikr?

the multiverse... its coming together.

I thought it was half asleep chris

want to see JJ on TLDR now

Being in college doesn't mean that you desire to learn or have the ability to. It often means you or your parents have deep pockets.

Same here in America 🙄

You would think that this sort of thing would be taught to Canadian children already in elementary school.

Ah you forgot that going to college doesn’t equate to great knowledge or intellect, it usually equates to deep pockets or rich families

This is the majority of the Canadian voting public...

Another example would be the USSR briefly re-organizing itself into “ the commonwealth of independent states.”

I was taught that my state of Pennsylvania is one of three American states that actually isn't defined as a state. We are the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Which is... basically just a state.

There is also the case of the commonwealth that was established after the execution of Charles I. Brits were at a loss to know what to call a country without a king.

The US state of Massachusetts also styles itself as a "Commonwealth" but I don't think anyone attaches any sinister connotations to it.

@@gemmeldrakes2758, yeah, that's mostly because the government's been too lazy to change the name...for 250 years.

Call back is very much going out of its way to ostentatiously not acknowledge her passing.

Let's just say that the Queen's passing has revivified the old anti-monarchy sentiment amongst Quebec's nationalist and pro-independence movements. 1 deputy of the Bloc Québecois publicly made comments about separatism from the Crown the day after the death of her majesty and the party's leader has sinced said in Parliament he would bring back that debate after the nation has had its time to grief.

I've read somewhere that we'll probably be the last former colony still tied to the monarchy, because while every other commonwealth country will become a republic, Québec will use the fact that every province needs to sign off on changing the constitution as a bargaining chip to further their own goals.

No politician in Québec has said that for now. However, many of them will soon be very vocal about wanting out of the monarchy. It his on pause at the moment, but it will restart very soon. Not to mention that Québec's prime minister has recruited many pro-independence candidates, some are expected to be named ministers after the current elections. There is a possibility Premier Legault could in the future change side and use the Crown as an argument to separate from Canada. He still claims to be a federalist, but that might change... I personally doubt it as it would be a political suicide, but it is indeed possible.

While I'm an American from New England living in upstate New York, about thirty years ago, I was an undergraduate student in Montreal. The acknowledgement of the monarchy and the Queen was very variable. Most Quebecois francophones were either indifferent or hostile to the institution with a small sliver who were more pro-monarchist as a way to show support for federalism. Among non-francophones, the anglophones varied from indifference to mild pro-monarchism while the allophones were for the most part clueless. Likenesses of the Queen could be found in courtrooms and federal government buildings but not provincial government buildings. The statues of former monarchs such as Queen Victoria and King Edward VIII in public squares seem to be in fair repair but very few people seemed to make too much of their symbolism. Back then, I was talking to a francophone friend-of-a-friend who I didn't care much for. I mentioned that the Queen was Canada's head of state. He argued with me that this was not the case. I asked him why her likeness was on most of the money. He looked askance. I told him that he may not like it and he may even want to fight against Canada being a kingdom (queendom), but the facts are the facts. I don't think we ever spoke again.

". As someone who has no stones in this area I was kinda shocked by how vicious some people I know were the minute after her passing was announced" I guarantee that those people never cared about the monarchy until she died as well.

I guarantee that many of those same people celebrating online probably also tuned in to watch the royal wedding 10 years ago. Young people online don’t actually seem to hold any consistent beliefs on anything. Mostly, they’re immature people hopping on the latest bandwagon.

regardless of the institution she’s still a human that made the choice to colonize several countries

@@land___shark She didn't though.

@@jabrokneetoeknee6448 %100. I'm sure most of these people went to see the Downton Abbey movie earlier this year.

britain so crazy

Ok bro

Ahh you addressed my comment as I was writing it. Good stuff!

My issue was not the details of the specific program or why it exists Rather, that in your video you characterized Canadian college students who said they could get a special UK visa through being a Commonwealth member as uninformed and stupid. If you knew that in fact it was a real program and that those students were actually right when you made the video, you could have simply left that out instead of gone ahead with the gratuitous and misleading criticism of them

@@islandlanguage3349 I didn't say anything about "special UK visas."

I bet it must have been even stranger to see a woman on coins.

@@ARCtheCartoonMaster Yeah, and here in America there was a push a few years ago to put a woman on a dollar bill (ultimately Harriet Tubman.) We've also had Susan B. Anthony and Sacagawea on dollar coins.

Well as an Australian, it's never been strange to hear "King/Queen of Australia", I mean it's an intriguing concept since our monarch is actually on the other side of the globe and historically in our constitution we never referred to the Monarch as Australian but British, this however changed recently. Ultimately I believe the monarchy is a great symbol of our history and is a unifying factor between the majority English speaking countries (except america). Plus it's super cool.

@@harrisonbailey5449 I was just trying to make the point that if anybody is aware of just how many surviving monarchies there are (and it's more than most people realize), we usually think of them being in Europe or Asia, maybe Africa. Australia isn't the sort of country that comes to mind, and neither is Canada, New Zealand, Belize, or any of the Commonwealth realms in the Caribbean and Oceania. (And plenty of English-speaking countries besides America aren't Commonwealth realms.) For full disclosure, I strongly support the British monarchy for exactly the reasons you outlined. I don't think it's as essential to the other Commonwealth realms, but I would still hope that they don't abolish it. I'd never want a monarchy here in America (even constitutional) and I am equally strong in my position against absolute monarchies, but constitutional monarchies in countries where it's an essential part of history and national identity and the sovereign is a purely ceremonial figure (like Britain) should never be scrapped.

@@hotwax9376 Oh yes I completely understand that, western European countries have plenty of monarchies and it's Definitely were you'd expect to see them since it's such an important part of their histories. But for the former british colonies you don't see that the importance of the monarchy is downplayed since the actual monarch is so far away, and many former british colonies even abolished it. The main reason I suppose is how similar our countries are, and people rarely ever see the king or queen in the realms titled "King of Canda" for example. The monarch not actually being here and the near irrelevance of the Governor-General just makes it seem we aren't actually countries that are monarchies and even have the same one.

People may disagree with each other opinion but respect must always reign.

As a fellow Canadian Monarchist, I can't help but respect JJ... Even though JJ and I disagree on almost everything...

> as a Canadian monarchist, So traitor to the Canadian people?

@@debodatta7398 What an idiotic statement...So then are our entire Armed Forces traitors having made oaths to the Crown. Debate on the subject is welcome....I'll thought out and inflammatory statements are not..

She wasn't an absolute monarch, but Victoria kind of was some old lady who ruled half the world

That's kinda of based

@@jackyex *kind of you love tradition so much, why do you have to ruin English? If you don't like it speak something else.

@@TOBAPNW_ so, the only thing you argue about is some spelling mistakes? How virtuos of you.

​@@TOBAPNW_ *If you love traditions so much, why do you have to ruin English? If you don't like it, speak something else.

Same here brother, darned Frenchman...

Louis was under the regency of his mother for the first few years though

Louis started really young

Louise XIV is the most monarchist monarch. Nobody could out-monarch him.

Tbf, Louise XLV became king when he was 4 years old

The Queen reminds me of my grandmother too, even though I don't really have very sentimental feelings about my grandmother. But both women were symbols of their generation, and are easy to admire for that reason alone... just as a link to an increasingly vanishing past.

Lowercase r mate

@@Emmet_Moore I know it should be, it was changed by autocorrect. Thanks for pointing it out

Definitely sounds like him

The description actually confirms that

These are entirely separate arrangements made bilaterally between countries, not a direct (and certainly not an automatic) consequence of belonging to the Commonwealth. Also worth noting that several non Commonwealth countries participate in working holiday and study schemes.

@@schrire39 Non commonwealth countries do participate, but the British white setter colonies get twice as much time on their visas with each other and the motherland.

@@Gamenetreviews Which schemes are you referring to specifically ? There are multiple schemes in multiple countries.

Thing is, it did actually used to be the case that citizens from anywhere in the Commonwealth could go anywhere else, so there is some historic basis to it that might be [mis]informing that belief today. My mother moved from Canada to the UK in pre-EU times and she didn't really have to do anything, though by then the automatic entry into Canada for Brits had gone as my father had to go through the immigration system when they moved to Canada. Even today, Aussies and Canadians in the UK do get to vote in UK local elections and they could also vote in the Brexit referendum (EU citizens also had the right to vote in local elections, but not the Brexit vote).

Yes an Australian at Whistler told me that they have reciprocal visas.

I literally found no one saddened by the queen’s death here in Brazil

@@luisfelipefaria9404 sucking up to the brits is very chilean thing

@Carlos Adrián Aguirre I was curious how Mexico would react. We Mexicans don't have much of a connection to Britain. I know some people see Spain in a similar light to Canada and Britain but you don't really hear about any of the royalty there. I only realized when the Queen died I don't know if they still have a Royal family. It's not like the Queen was the only Royal either. I heard Japan still has a royal family and I've heard of others. However the Queen was the Queen of the nation that once ruled the world so I guess that's what makes her so significant to some.

@@Utterlyderanged didn't know mourning equals sucking up.

@@Slenderkllz What lol. I’ve been to 3 Brazilian cities since the queen’s death: São Paulo, São José dos Campos and Marília. One has 20 million inhabitants, the other 730K and the other 250K. I’ve talked to the most diverse range of people possible, from conservatives to communists. Literally NO ONE is even slightly saddened, which doesn’t mean that they’re happy she died, they’re just indifferent to it. That’s what you’d expect from people in a country thousands of miles away from the United Kingdom.

Definitely my favorite commentary, and quite insightful, as I wasn't aware that Canadians had such an ambivalent relationship with The Queen. ✌️😎🍀

I am from Ontario but I prefer Québec. I feel like I am uniquely qualified to say, I'm especially not American because I'm Francophone Canadian, and then Anglophone Canadian. Also, I absolutely support the monarchy because the monarchy is the last thing that gives us some independence from the USA. We hate them but they love us. They would invade if it didn't mean war with the UK, which thereby means war with the rest of the commonwealth. NATO, there's a chance that, even though it's supposed to mean that an attack on Canada is an attack on all other NATO nations, do we really think that places like Iceland, France, Denmark, Belgium, etc, are really going to defend us? Or, better yet, be successful in defending us? The UK would happily sail over with no questions asked. The rest of the world would be too scared. The UK is one of the few militaries in the world that should scare the Americans.

@@AndrewGeierMelons Trust and believe that not a single American wants to invade Canada... Even though Americans love Canada, Canada isn't ever on the minds of the American people and will most likely never be

Yeah the colonial wars and britians soft hand on French colonists led to Quebec staying more French then say, New Holland staying Dutch.

@@AndrewGeierMelons tbh no one nation can handle the US😅 especially one it’s invading a country as close as canada Maybe china and russia but why would they

@@AndrewGeierMelons Firstly, the thought of the US invading Canada - its closest neighbor and NATO ally - is completely ridiculous. Secondly, the Commonwealth countries are not obligated in any way to defend or support the UK or any other Commonwealth country militarily. Thirdly, NATO countries would not attack one of their own members, especially not the US which is by far the largest member and contributor to NATO's budget.

She was a veteran of the War. She worked as an auto-mechanic from 1944 to 1945.

gag

@@abdisaniini Well, first of all, she was a woman in the 1940s, she couldn't fight on the front lines. Second of all, she was born in 1926, which meant she was only 13 when the war began and 18 when she started. And also, out of the Royal Family, she was the only one who actually did something physically in the war especially since Westminister was actually supposing that for their safety she and her late younger sister, Princess Margaret, flee to Canada for their safety. So overall, she did the most she could do under her circumstances.

@@abdisaniini Well, she is part of the female veterans. But with that being said, Soldiers who actually fought in the front lines did much more than her,l but she still did the best she could and she didn't lock herself up in a palace.

@@abdisaniini she was also part of the monarchy that I believe technically is in command of important military decisions as well so I would think that alone would put her as veteran and also living through the bombings all British people even those who didn’t serve were still part of the war even those back home who were mechanics or machinists the war was mostly won by manufacturing more than anything else we don’t tell soldiers in the military that they aren’t veterans just because they’re and engineer or a cook who does their work away from the front lines it’s a similar situation

Any decent discussion would have involved the Constitutional Authority held by the Queen or Governor General . When the Queen ascended the throne in 1953 she took an Oath before God to do her duty for her Citizens. She took this Oath very seriously . Most people are unaware that the Queen and British PM were required to have confidential meetings every week - the meetings are called an Audience . I'm sure there were a few occasions when the Queen asked are you doing your duty ? Is this in the best interest of British citizens ? I don't think we have an Audience in Canada . . Also, in Britain , the Queen's signature was required before the HoC could debate any legislation . In 1999 she refused a piece of legislation to be discussed. Again, I don't think we have this in Canada . Also, in Britain Cabinet Ministers have real authority and as we just saw , they can push a PM out . This sounds a bit chaotic , but its far more democratic . Where as here in Canada , Cabinet Minister's get their taking notes from the unelected PMO , and Cabinet Ministers would not dream of voting the PM out . The bottom line is this : Both Canada and Britain are stronger Democracies because they are Constitutional Monarchy's . As one person it so well , there is political government , who is influenced by the ultra wealthy , but that government still needs to get symbolic approval from an apolitical Queen . Rarely know bit of info : After WW II , under US occupation Japan's Constitution was changed in 1947 and it was modeled on Britain's Westminster System - with human rights and voting rights for both men and women. .

@@landsea7332 how about this. Fuck monarchy. Canada would be much better off with out a person just born is our head of state. Take you diary entry amd shove it. The empire that enslaved the world. The kings and queens which okays murder, rape and genocide.

@@landsea7332 she took power in 52

@@landsea7332 I don't know how much of that is true, but I do believe that a neutral party and a ceremonial head of state have a great deal of value in terms of service to its citizens, which is why I think a Monarchical disposition works for democratic countries. I think older democracies had at least two leaders for a reason, like Rome and Sparta for one (I know Sparta had Kings, but the division of power aspect makes it worth pointing out), and that's because the centralisation of power to individuals is the cause of most of the strife associated with Monarchs, Despots and Tyrants. A constitutional Monarchy fundamentally makes it so that power cannot be centralised to an individual, and every Governor-General in the world is there to remind the PM of that fact, that they are merely there to serve the democratic needs of the people in upholding the constitution of the nation, there is no power but the bare minimum required to achieve this result. That is a democracy, whereas a republic is subject to populist nonsense and the repetition of the same old bullsh*t that destroyed most democracies in the first place.

Nuance, sure. Respect? What's to give? I'm a republican and I really don't think she deserves any more respect than anyone else. She should be criticised fairly for her actions and inactions. She isn't more special than anyone else, and if she didn't use her considerable position, wealth and (yes, very limited) power to even try to advance the cause of people suffering under the government she was supposedly the head of, I think she'll rightly cop flak.

@@TOBAPNW_ The whole point of the monarchy is to be neutral?

Well why do you love them so much? What have they done for you personally or anyone else in the UK or the Commonwealth? They can have their monarchy...in the UK, not Canada.

@@a.c.e.7568 he’s a brit and he’s talking about if there was a referendum here in the uk

@@TOBAPNW_ ahh, so your saying upon a person's death we should make sure we immediately begin to critique there entire impact on history, before the funeral and while still in mourning. By respect I mean treating the death of the Queen as if humans are a thing, and many many people are hurting and need to grieve. But this is a difficult argument as I'm seeing this from a personal aspect, many people only see the monarch as a symbol.

I think when an institution has to be understood in this complex metaphorical way it’s clearly failing at some level.

@@JJMcCullough yeah that’s a fair comment

@@JJMcCullough other than our institutions survive on the status quo. For Canada to become a republic we'd have to renegotiate treaties with indigenous communities. Print new money, overhaul our military which is built on allegiance to the crown to the point the crown is in all the ranks. Overhaul our provincial governments as each province is a crown asset. That also means parliament would cease to exist, while our current politicians may not keep power. That also doens t include foreign investment if we randomly uprooted our government to make a new styles government wouldn't prove to investors Canada is a stable nation.

@@joshuamarshall1718 If Britain becomes a republic, I think it would become so almost automatically.

@@JJMcCulloughCan that be blamed on the institution or the ubiquitous historical illiteracy of the nations people?

I should! I actually have come to respect Queen Victoria a lot more. I think she was kind of a dopey, simple woman in a lot of ways, but she did exert a lot of cultural influence on Britain (and America!) and there are a lot of modern middle class traditions, involving Christmas, weddings, and funerals that we can trace back to things that started with her family "modeling" the correct way to behave.

@@JJMcCullough I look forward to it!

@@JJMcCullough I randomly remembered this comment when reading something about Victoria. Don't think you've made that video yet so thought i'd give you a reminder/push.

oh, that must have been a fun family visit when they got together.

Must have been interesting when the family came together.

In my original script I went on at greater length about this. I think it was a reveling glimpse of a lot of the ills of our time, including mass scale ignorance about many very basic facts about history and government.

Exactly

@@JJMcCullough I remember seeing a clip of a New Zealand woman taking the oath to become a member of parliament, and saying "to the colonizing Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth", and I thought that was utterly ridiculous

Attacking the Queen for events which she had no control over only demonstrates both pettiness and immaturity. Any grievances of this kind ought to be directed at the institution of the monarchy, not the Queen.

The other side of the coin of defending her from this kind of criticism is that you can't really praise her for too much in the way of achievements either. If Britain did something bad during her reign, she can't be held responsible because she was just a figurehead. If Britain achieved something great during her reign, she can't take credit for it for the exact same reason.

Cool

So we better not catch you making fun of her online!

Good.

lol

I think its more common to hang a picture of a founding father on your wall. my dad did that.

The way the average American acted after the Queen's passing; it was like 1776 never happened.🙄

@@alexandercampbell7903 1776 was centuries ago, America should seek closer relations with our great ally and I'm glad some Americans realize that.

@@craydussy I am not disputing your point, but the Queen was the Queen of England; and many Americans and Canadians were acting as if she were THEIR Queen after her passing.

I don't know, it seems kind of weird that the Head of State of Canada, even without any real title, was someone who is British. Like a Brit was the Queen of Canada and another Brit is now the King of Canada and technically the monarch. Doesn't that make you feel as Canadians like your nation is more of a subject, not fully sovereign nation? I could never imagine the US having foreign monarch who was the King of America

@@alexandercampbell7903 Some Americans, especially liberals, see monarchism as a bulwark against populism.

The Monarch is Head of State. Governor General is the representative.

As an American I was sad at her passing. She was an amazing woman.

I'm the same age as him and I wish he'd cool it with the "basically middle-aged" talk! 😂

No, it doesn’t

@@decrox13 You might both be right. School curriculum changes over time and even depends somewhat on which state it's being taught in.

How was ww1 and ww2 not world history? And if you're speaking truthfully, you haven't been in school for nearly 4 decades, so how should you known what modern children are being thought?

A free movement policy would have caused a migration crisis, as the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are significantly richer than the other Commonwealth Realms.

@@JollyOldCanuck no it would just be for the white countries

@@biggibbs4678 That would be a discriminatory policy.

there are some immigration rules that allow you to get a work permit in the UK if you're the child or grandchild of a British citizen and our medical degrees translate from one country to another. That's why you'll often see South African or Indian doctors practice here, rather than American doctors. Some weird left over colonialism bits and pieces.

@@brianbarker2551 huh. So... the work permit rule would apply if you were an old enough Australian/Canadian/New Zealander that your grandparents lived in the country before they (the country) granted separate, non-british citizenship?

Ex British colonies were celebrating, especially in America, we have no respect for her. I don't think it's far off either. It makes me angry knowing the history of the British empire and Queen Elizabeth control over center things that Brits swear up and down she never had lol. F the Queen 👑

Because of mass non British immigration

The thing is that it is a non-issue. People not only are uneducated about our government system. It also nearly impossible to pass constitutional changes (like cutting ties to the monarchy). I personally believe it would also be the backbone of any potential CANZUK style union. I'm personally a die-hard monarchist (and partially a British/Canadian nationalist) so obviously I would have a different view on it than most others, so take my thoughts with a grain of salt.

@@arabrem488 are you of British ancestry yourself?

@@janeeire2439 unfortunately there is some truth to that. Immigrants from other former British colonies bring with them disdain towards the institution since Britain was exceptionally cruel in their countries.

@@janeeire2439 Yes. My community was one of the last to be founded by British settlers in its entirety. I personally view the monarchy as a tie to our heritage as a nation.

If you like it then you can donate to a fund yourselves but you don’t speak for the rest of us

@@laurencampbell5893 they bring in more money than they spend (tourism, crown lands, etc.). I think Im safely speaking for the roughly 60%* of UK citizens who still believe the monarchy should exist

@@laurencampbell5893 It costs under $2 per Canadian to maintain the crown, which we more than make up for when American tourists come and pay to visit places like Victoria or old-timey places on the East Coast. You should look into things before emotionally reacting to them

@@andrewpodolio59 the latest poll say that the support of the monarchy in the UK is in the 60% mark

@@andrewpodolio59 Ya know there's other forms of tourism that don't come with that massive amount of baggage right? I'd personally say keeping the monarchy in any high position just makes you look bad.

It’s an interesting thought but for me it’s an unsettling one. Politicians should be granted their authority by the people, not some higher power.

@@Pscribbled maybe a higher power that can keep politicians in check?

​@@Pscribbled The "people" is a super vague and impersonal idea though, which can be easily abused since it is so vague( The "People's" Republic of China is a good example of that). Humans aren't a hivemind with one will. There is a reason why direct democracies in history were city states. The thing with monarchy is that the monarch is an actual living being and not some vague abstract idea. This is why monarchies were so popular and prevalent through human history and why republics have the tendency to mutate to proto-monarchies

@@Laurentius1099 Awful take. Popular sovereignty is not vague. There is a very clear parallel between the rise of ideas around populations having the right of self-determination and the rise of Republican governments during the Enlightenment and the subsequent decline of Imperial powers. It’s an IDEAL, yes, but it’s a very powerful ideal. What IS vague is a family declaring they were given authority by God to rule large swaths of disparate human populations who have no unifying culture or shared national identity. Maybe consider that Empires and monarchs died out precisely because they COULDNT exist in our modern world. Such a form of government has so many contradictions and weaknesses that they were practically fated to erode in the age of mass information

I wish we had our own monarch, a king who could stand up to the politicians and their oligarchs

Greece’s royal family was danish, not German

The royal families of Europe are all related. A claim like 'Britain's royal family came from Germany' ignores the fact that the House of Hanover resulted from an English royal marrying a Danish royal who went on to produce descendants that married a German royal. It's literally impossible to ground the ancestry of any European royal to just one country.

@@mr.anderson2241 its actually German

Of origin

Or the Kardashians

Canada already is America jr. It’s not like the royals aren’t an equally big part of American culture too.

So Canadians keep it to be different from the US. Sounds about right.

@@JJMcCullough​​⁠The royals aren’t a big part of American culture though….

@@impulse_xs there are as much a part of American culture as they are part of Canadian culture, which is to say a minor part of celebrity culture

Canada can be a great country while still being immature. Canada can be good at some things and bad at other things. Canada has done many terrible things but we wouldn't brush them off as irrelevant just because we have "free health care" now.

@@JJMcCullough Being good at some things while bad at others is completely normal, both for people and countries. It is not necessarily indicative of a lack of maturity. Nor would I suggest that the bad things in Canadian history are somehow erased by the sucesses of modern Canada. Indeed one could argue that the two are often connected, as part of the wealth of modern Canada is based on the systematic disenfranchisement of native people so that settlers could exploit the land for farming, mining etc. My point is that it is just as much of a mistake to assume Republicanism will somehow change your country or how other countries perceive it, or that it will somehow fix national problems as it is to believe that a King will impart some sort of magical well-being to your country. The same problems will exist the day after the Republic as the day before. Canada is lucky in that as a country, it has comparatively few problems. For other countries in our Hemisphere, being a republic has not necessarily meant prosperity or stability, while Canada is fortunate enough to enjoy both. Having a President or a Monarch is largely symbolic, other factors are more important in creating a stable democracy.

@@gemmeldrakes2758 I don't know, it seems kind of weird that the Head of State of Canada, even without any real title, was someone who is British. Like a Brit was the Queen of Canada and another Brit is now the King of Canada and technically the monarch. Doesn't that make you feel as Canadians like your nation is more of a subject, not fully sovereign nation? I could never imagine the US having foreign monarch who was the King of America

@@AW-zk5qb I am not Canadian.

@@gemmeldrakes2758 question still remains. Having a foreign monarch means you are still symbolically subordinate

Life in republics is not the utopia you think it is

​@@myamdane6895He never said that? I don't understand how you extrapolated "republic are utopias" from that

@@spectraljerk330 His/her comment inferred living outside of a monarchy is preferable to living under one. What other sensible choice is there but a republic?

It's crazy. I feel like I'm passed the grief stage, and the funeral's not even started

I don’t think it would be that hard. The Canadian governments always agree on everything anyway.

@@JJMcCullough Doesn’t it require unanimous approval from all provincial and territorial legislatures?

I'm going to be a bit of a contrarian here. While getting rid of the Monarchy is technically doable I think the only thing it would achieve would be to start an expensive 15 way pissing match between the provinces/territories, Ottawa, and the various First Nation communities over Rights responsibilities, and concessions that can be wrung out of the new constitutional order. And, after all the wrangling and inevitable feelings of betrayal and slight by at least some of the parties to this negotiation, what will have been achieved? How will the lives of Canadians be tangibly improved by changing our mechanics of govt from Constitutional Monarchy 2e to Advanced Democratic Republic 3e? We will still have cities we can't afford to live in and a crumbling medical system but at least we will have a president.

@@JJMcCullough Could you do a Video on British Patriotism ?

I don't know, it seems kind of weird that the Head of State of Canada, even without any real title, was someone who is British. Like a Brit was the Queen of Canada and another Brit is now the King of Canada and technically the monarch. Doesn't that make you feel as Canadians like your nation is more of a subject, not fully sovereign nation? I could never imagine the US having foreign monarch who was the King of America

I think you could just remove the monarch from the Canadian system and give the power to appoint a Governor General to either the HoC or some other body. There would be other technical changes but practically the system would work pretty much the same.

@@sokonek1 yes of course that would work. But I would like to hear JJ discuss the pros and cons of different systems ie presidential, semi presidential etc but also discuss other constitutional changes he would like to see in Canada.

They didn't think they'd have to. They thought everyone would be jumping to trade with them rather than Europe. When it turns out they don't have much to offer that makes sense to ship across an ocean.

That work visa is eligible to anyone in the western world.

@@JJMcCullough Australia, Canada, Monaco, New Zealand, San Marino, and Iceland not exactly the commonwealth I know, but far from the the whole western world. And when speaking to my immigration case handler, they spoke of it as the "commonwealth visa" as its mostly the commonwealth countries in that list who go for it.

@@JJMcCullough You need to be from a Commonwealth Realm or the Republic of Ireland to vote in UK elections without being a citizen.

@@AmoraTheBrewer But that's only because the UK was in the EU until recently so there was no need for special visas for Europeans. As far as I am aware, it's now eligible for EU citizens too.

@@JJMcCullough I got the visa after the the Brexit fiasco. They have yet to update the visa to include EU citizens. However, I have a feeling by this time next year that will no longer be the case.

That's a deciding factor in my considering him my favourite Canadian youtube

😂 😂 😂 that was funny,

I hope not.

Monarchy would win

@@hmmhmm7029 that's what I would vote 👍

Monarchy would win but give it 10-15 years especially as the white population goes down and different story

Yes, still true in 2024. A Canadian citizen living in the UK can register to vote in British Parliamentary elections and can stand for Parliament.

I'm pro-commonwealth

As do new British citizens.

There is a legal concept of the Crown that’s more like “the people” than the individual Queen. So when you swear allegiance to the Queen, it’s similar to swearing allegiance to the people of Canada. This is why you’ll sometime see different “Crowns” (Ie the Queen in right of Canada, the Queen in right of Ontario, etc) and why the system doesn’t change when the monarch becomes someone new. So when you swear allegiance to the Queen, you’re swearing it to the people of Canada as currently embodied by the Queen. It’s weird.

@@morganmccabe7739 that's basically the same in the UK too. "The Crown" is also legal shorthand for "the Government" too.

The Armed Forces and police services also swear allegiance to Charles III in all 14 Commonwealth Realms and the UK. I want to argue that this is a good thing in the event that an elected government in a realm becomes authoritarian, they wouldn't be able to really force the Armed Forces and Police to do anything as they could all argue that they swore allegiance to the monarch, not to the elected government.

And they can vote.

I agree that Australia will probably become a republic way before Canada. It's interesting comparing the two countries, so similar in many ways and yet so different in others, as shown in this video!

Lots of countries have informal arrangements like that, it has nothing to do with the commonwealth.

It’s interesting you say that, I would say the monarchy is more popular in Australia than in Canada.

I think keeping the monarchy is another specific attempt by Canada to differentiate itself from the US, because of what you mentioned the insecurity about its identity vis a vis the US, which Australia doesn't have. I mean I get it; being next to the most powerful and influential nation in the world, and having the general Canadian accent much much closer to the general American accent than accents between regions in the US

Londoner here. Also a monarchist. What would you say are your main reasons for being a Monarchist?

you are monarchist? how can anyone believe in a evil fascist system like monarchism. dude read some history.

@@qfox16789 im also canadian and am fine with the monarchy i just think the symbolic make believe is kinda nice. Plus plenty of material for future movies and shows.

@@SuperKing604 are you fine with a monarchical rule or are you just fine with Canada’s symbolic monarchy?

if ppl who are pro monarchy investigated her ties to ppl like jimmy saville and effery jep stein, would they still be pro monarchy?

Do you honestly think setting up a monarchy in Germany would somehow be uncontroversial ?

@@JJMcCullough Absolutly not! If its not impossible, then it will be an uphill battle. The german political system is infamous for its defens of the status quo, for better (stability) or worse (nessessary reforms are only made when its unavoideble, not when its reasonble). I see (or imagine) great crisis at the horizon and I want my fatherland to weather them in good condition, sadly the question of national identity ("Leitkulturdebatte") is very tabu for most politicans.

@@JJMcCullough The Basic Law for the Republic of Germany, mandates democracy in politics! There is no room for aristocratic offfices from 1918 onwards!

Heh, I saw one person say it would be sort of like blaming John Roberts for the Trail of Tears because he holds the bible at the inauguration.