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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (16877)	4/14/2010 5:39:32 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Apparently the $10mil was how much goes to the queen and her properties in the UK, while the $50mil is how much for everything at all related to the relationship, including the Governor General and his office, the provision lieutenant-governors, etc. If I was Canadian, I might not want to pay it, but it probably wouldn't be a huge issue to me, and if it was it would not be because of the money ($50mil isn't very significant to a rich country), but because of the symbolism and ideas behind it. If you support those and actually care about them $50mil is cheap. If you don't like them than $1 is too dear. I'll probably drop out of this conversation after this post. Its not really something I care about much.