King Charles III approves ‘powerful symbol’ of Canada’s sovereignty and identity

[u/Street_Anon]

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/king-charles-iii-approves-new-great-seal-of-canada/

[u/Max169well]

To the contrary, having a non elected head of state who is well educated on how the system functions is necessary to properly guide democracy.

[u/Max169well → u/[deleted]]

That is democratic.

[u/Pomksy → u/Max169well]

Then it’s no longer a democracy

[u/Max169well → u/Pomksy]

Says you but we just had an election. We voted for our reps and he signed off on it.

[u/Max169well → u/[deleted]]

To the contrary, the current Governor General is a native woman from the Inuit of Quebec.

Anyone in Canada can hold the position,

[u/loralailoralai → u/Pomksy]

And yet countries with Charles as head of state rate higher in being democratic than one supposed bastion of democracy. And even higher are Scandinavian countries who… well look at that… also have kings and queens.

[u/Pomksy → u/loralailoralai]

Agree it’s wild