Hope

I am curious as to what people think of Queen Elizabeth being on one side of some of our coins?

Melissa

She is our Queen, why not have her on our coins.

Modernguy

Having an English queen on our coins is pretty good proof that we're not a real country.

Ezway

Who cares? She is still the Queen of Canada. It really means nothing, she and the governor general have no official power so whats the problem? Modernguy, I hope you realize that all of the other many British Commonwealth nations are still linked to the Monarchy, I find it odd that you would consider Canada and all of those other nations "not real".

Melissa

It is part of our heritage....I hope this never changes....Canadians invented the Constitutional Monarchy and we should be proud....Canada's gov't is the model for all other Commonwealth nations. We are part of a wonderful and REAL country.

gary

Two reasons why most Canadians don't get excited about having a foreign queen on our money. The first is we dislike our own politicians even more so the suggestion of an elected president doesn't turn us on and second, with all the problems we've had with Quebec we need another divisive debate like we need a hole in our head. <BR><BR>So in the spirit of if it aint broke don't fix it - we take the easy way out and do nothing.

Allan D'Arcy

Queen Elizabeth is the Queen of Canada. She became a Canadian citizen in 1936, on the ascension of King George VI, the Queen's father. Thus, she became a Canadian citizen a good half dozen years before Her Excellency Adrianne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada. Would anyone say Adrianne Clarkson is a foreigner?<BR>Would anyone say the United Kingdom is not a real country because their Head of State is a foreigner, a Canadian?<BR>Lots of Canadians have dual citizenship. Our Queen has multiple citizenships.

Jory

Melissa, if "Canada's gov't is the model for all other Commonwealth nations" as you say, God help us all.

P. Stanley

As a Canadian, I am proud of my blended heritage. Though my ancestry is primarily from the Brithish Isles, my heritage is First Nations, French, English, Palistinian, Cantonese, Ukrainian, Dukabor, Jewish, Zimbabwian, and over a hundred other stands of culture. I happily rejoice in the opportunity to support all of these cultures with my tax dollars, because they are part of me as a Canadian. <BR>However, as a citizen decended from English immigrants who came to Canada to successfully repell the American invaders in 1812-1814, I have to insist on equal respect for my personal heritage, ie. the Monarchy. It costs us nothing, but is ever much a part of the fabric of this nation as the First Nations Great Circle or the French Language.<BR>My 2 cents.<BR>Peter Stanley

Robert

True enough, but I've heard mocking comments by others about having QE on our currency. Inevitably it turns to the somewhat testy subject of how secure we Canadiens feel about our statehood.

Faina

I think it's weird not to have a queen in the country and still have her on coins. With all due respect to her I think she belongs on British currency only. It would be the same if instead of our presidents we would put the queen on USA currency. Don't you canadians have presidents to respect and remember?

traveller

Uh, no, we don't have presidents. What difference does it really make? Money is money.

Melissa

No disrespect to Faina, but if you aren't a Canadian, or a memeber of the commonwealth, please don't comment on this matter. We have Prime Minister's by the way

xxx

Its a hell of a lot better than having that asshole Chretien on our money, I'm sure he'd love it though. By the way, Gary, I resent your implication that Quebec causes problems. I am a Quebecker and a strong Federalist. It is the PQ in power now that causes the problems, which is ironic since the majority of Quebeckers in the last election didn't even vote for them. Also, the extreme vast majority of Quebeckers do not support seperation. Alberta is probably more of a problem to Canada than Quebec.

gary

Excuse me 'xxx' I didn't in any way imply that Quebec 'causes' problems. what I said was that we don't need another issue that will pit Canadians against Canadians. At least with the Seperation issue there were real major economic, social and political consequences to Quebec seperation. Obviously most quebecers aern't seperatists or it would be a done deal already. But you have to admit the issue draws very strong emotions on both sides inside Quebec and outside.<BR><BR>The issue of the monarchy however is one that would cause huge arguments between a small minority who love the Monarchy v a small minority who hate it and over half the people who really don't give a damn one way or the other would be caught in the middle. and in the end what eifferance would it make? I love this country with a passion and whether we have a Queen or a President won't make me love it one bit more or less. <BR><BR>Frankly I think England will jetison the Monarchy before we do and then the decision will be masde for us.

Pauline

To Allan D'Arcy ([email protected])<BR><BR>As far as I know, 'your queen' has only one citizenship and that is British.<BR>She might be the 'Queen' of other Commonwealth countries but I don't think she holds citizenship of those countries. She certainly doesn't hold Australian citizenship.<BR>

Farrah

To Allan D'Arcy - I did a little research and I see that the Queen does hold a Canadian citizenship.

Modernguy

So the Queen of England is a Canadian citizen. I guess she's the only one of us who doesn't have to pay any taxes here!!! How do I get on that plan?

Jack

As far as I'm concerned, the Queen can take her $250,000,000 carriage, turn the SOB sideways and shove it up her candy a**.<BR><BR>

xxx

And let her take Chretien along.