Canada is a member of the Commonwealth. Its head of state is the Queen.
Canada is still part of the Commonwealth.
Let’s be clear here, these so-called animal activists are not doing this for the benefit of the elephants. There is a good chance these animals could die during transport, not mix well with the other elephants thanks to constant habituation with human beings. From an elephant’s perspective he’s being rejected by his tribe, and could die from loneliness.
Just read up on Vancouver’s elephant, Tina, to know that this group is not doing it for the elephants.
Canada is a member of the Commonwealth. Its head of state is the Queen.Canada is a constitutional monarchy. Elizabeth is Queen of Canada as well as Queen of Great Britain and as well as certain other Dominions.
The RCAF and the RCN proudly wear their titles, recently restored to them by the Conservative government of Stephen Harper.
TThe air force and the navy fought WWII and Korea under the names of Royal Canadian Air Force and Royal Canadian Navy. The two were brought into a combined force styled the Canadian Forces by a former Liberal government.
Land Units kept their regimental names, such as "Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry", "Royal Candian Regiment", "Royal 22e Régiment", "Lord Strathcona Horse (Royal Canadian)", "Royal Candian Horse Artillery" etc.
Canadian naval ships continued to have "HMCS" (Her Majesty's Canadian Ship) as part of their names.
Tradition goes a long way in military units.
Canada and its Provinces together exercise full sovereignty independent of Great Britain which is honoured only as the "Mother Country". Each of the levels of government are sovereign intra vires with the whole of the sovereignyt being found in the division of powere in our constitutional documents. Canadian naval ships continued to have