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April Fools Day is the dumbest holiday in existence
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this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2024
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It’s not a real holiday.
Christmas and Easter are more foolish.
Foolish but I'll take a day off for any reason. In Canada we even have a holiday for the queen LOL
Canada has a queen?
Not anymore.
IIRC, both Canada and Australia are still tied to the British monarchy through some technicalities in their independence.
What it realy boils down to, we (and australia, NZ) still have a monarch, it just happens to be the same person as Englands. The office of the Monarch of the Dominion of Canada is not the same office as the Queen of England or the Empress of Great Britain though. To keep consistency, the whole thing has to continue or we just start over and the whole legal deck of cards is reduced to "Yeah we're a republic now, precedence is gone, straight force for the next while instead of tradition until the new fiction gets to be traditional"
Cheers for the explanation. It's come up a few times in things I've watched and read but I never really got a clear explanation. Just some mention about legal technicalities... And it kind of got glossed over from there.
a sovereign. Being formerly of the British Empire, everything is based on the same legal fiction as England, all power derives from the crown. Any laws that are passed in Canada are signed into law by either the governor general on behalf of the monarch or the monarch themselves. King Charles can literally get on a boat and force an election in Canada if he feels the government has lost it. They have generally ceded this power and only use it in a real emergency or upon the request of parliament.
Well, for a specific queen, but whatevs, nobody better mess with my May 2-4 weekend.
Eh, I won't say no to any excuse to get time off and eat too much food