Well technically, according to the Canadian government, to use the word loosely, or to the UK government for that matter, Canadian citizens are not British subjects and haven't been since Pierre of the Finger 'repatriated' the consitution, i.e. requested that the Queen annul the British North America Act ... now we're nothing really, nobody's subjects, well hell we were always straying off the subject anyway ... now we are defined only by that quality in us that is Not American, evidenced by small things, for instance the relative freedom within these borders from random gunfire.
Pierre's motives have been dealt with extensively elsewhere but i contend that mainly he just wanted to get his picture taken with the Queen, having nursed an inferiority complex since Maggie got hers taken with Mick Jagger. What did he care about the consequences, that a canehjun would then need a passport to even enter the UK, and could only do so as an alien? Truly, now the wogs do begin at Calais. Thee and me and the rest of us, my son, never shall we stride the earth as bona fide members of a group enjoying perpetual sunshine, our sun has set. And where did it set? .. well i think in the salute of Pierre of the Finger there was a message.
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