Is Canada a colony of Britain?

Question

Is Canada a colony of Britain?

Answer 1

Canada is a British Commonwealth.  All of it, including Québec, much to the dismay of many québecoises.

Answer 2

Speaking as a Brit, no it's not.

Edit: Actually, it seems that Queen Elizabeth II is Canada's Head of State. I suppose that makes me wrong. That's kinda embarassing.

Answer 3

agree with Sue.

you have to do some homework.

Trudeau didn't do a very good job in his time

like Prime Ministers before him

Joe Clark could of if he said longer in office

Answer 4

Any country that has a governor general, is a colony of Britain. Some people like to call it a dominion, but it is the same thing

Answer 5

No

Answer 6

In politics and in history, a colony is a territory under the immediate political control of a state. However, the British government has no control over Canada, therefore, the answer is no.

Canada is apart of the commonwealth, and the monarchy of Canada, also known as the Canadian monarchy, is a system of government in which a hereditary monarch is the sovereign of Canada, holding the position of head of state; the incumbent is Elizabeth II, officially called Queen of Canada. However, the real power lies in the hand of the Canadian Parliament and the Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Most of the Queen's powers in Canada are exercised by the Governor General, at present Michaëlle Jean, though the monarch does hold several powers that are hers alone. The Governor General, who maintains direct contact with the monarch, is sometimes referred to as Canada's de facto head of state. In each of Canada's provinces the monarch is represented by a Lieutenant-Governor.

Answer 7

Nope, see statute of Westminster 1931.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_...

Answer 8

it is except Quebec region wich is a French Colony....i believe there is also Dutch and nordic influence

Answer 9

No it is not, it is a former colony like the USA. The final parting of the ways was the Repatriation Act signed by the Queen, Elizabeth Regina and PM Pierre Trudeau at Ottawa in 1981. Trudeau did some dismantling before that. As a Canadian Citizen and a British Subject, I can tell you that Canadians and Brits could used each others social welfare systems (e.g free health care) prior to 1976, but Trudeau, the Brit. hater (even though his mother was Scots descent (Elliot)) abrogated this agreement. This agreement allowed Canadian Military serving in Britain to have free medical and dental care.

The tearing of this agreement also made a mess for many children, of Canadian military, who were  born in Britain, as they are now deemed to have no citizenship. This mess is being actively cleaned up.

As in the other answers, the Queen Elizabeth is still the head of state of Canada. A position  shared by other former Commonwealth countries e.g. Australia. Many in several commonwealth countries have been discussing terminating this agreement, most recently Australia, who voted to keep it for the time being. Personally I think Canada should keep the Queen as head of state until her reign is over, she is decent and a good example to all and also a good repository of power in a constitutional crisis.  Then take a serious look at the relationship afterwards.

The former British Commonwealth, in my opinion, should form a trading block similar to the EU or NAFTA .  There is a formal meeting from time to time and we already form a loose common defence agreement, including with one of the first former colonies, the USA.

It would appear to be a stronger defence block than NATO with some reluctant European continant countries, who we saved  or rebuilt in, or folowing, WW2, weakening their NATO committment or having previously dropped out of the alliance. Ungreatfull batards!

Answer 10

uhhhhh

no

Answer 11

And proud should they be with such a fine waver to be their head of state.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5pkDB7zE...

Answer 12

Canada is a Commnwealth Country of the United Kingdom

http://www.royal.gov/uk/output/Page4918....

"Canada is a parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy with The Queen as Sovereign.

As a constitutional monarch, The Queen abides by the decisions of the Canadian Government, but she continues to play important ceremonial and symbolic roles.

In all these duties, The Queen acts as Queen of Canada, quite distinctive from her role in the United Kingdom or any of her other realms.

Over the course of more than 50 years The Queen has been a regular visitor to Canada, paying over 20 visits. Together with The Duke of Edinburgh, The Queen has travelled through every part of the different provinces to meet people from all cultures, walks of life and regions.

Canada has been a monarchy for centuries - first under the kings of France in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, then under the British Crown in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and now as a kingdom in her own right.

The territories which now form Canada came under British power at various times by settlement, conquest or cession.

French Canada, with all its dependencies, including New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, was formally ceded to Great Britain by France in 1763. Vancouver Island was acknowledged to be British by the Oregon Boundary Treaty of 1846, and British Columbia was established as a separate colony in 1858.

The British North America Act paved the way for the evolution of modern Canada. In 1869 Ruperts Land, or the Northwest Territories, was purchased from the Hudsons Bay Company and annexed to Canada as the Northwest Territories in 1870.

By the same action the Province of Manitoba was created from a small portion of this territory and all were admitted into the Confederation in July 1870. In July 1871, British Columbia was admitted, and Prince Edward Island followed in July 1873.

The provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan were formed from the provisional districts of Alberta, Athabaska, Assiniboia and Saskatchewan and originally parts of the Northwest Territories and admitted on 1 September 1905.

Newfoundland formally joined Canada as its tenth province in 1949. In February 1931 Norway formally recognised Canadian title to the Sverdrup group of Arctic islands, giving Canada sovereignty over the whole Arctic sector north of the Canadian mainland.

In 1999 Nunavut became the largest and newest territory in Canada. Formed from the eastern part of the Northwest Territories, this huge Canadian arctic territory has only about 25,000 residents, about 80 percent of whom are Inuit.

By the British North American Act of 1867, Canada became the first Dominion within the British Empire. This meant it was a country of the British Empire and later the Commonwealth, with autonomy in domestic and foreign affairs.

The Act set out a constitution with the executive authority vested in the Sovereign, and carried on in her name by a Governor-General and Privy Council, with legislative power exercised by a Parliament of two Houses, a Senate and a House of Commons.

The Act also united Upper and Lower Canada (now Ontario and Quebec), Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Over the following years other colonies and the Northwest Territories joined the Confederation, the last two being Newfoundland and Labrador in 1949, and Nunavut in 1999.

In 1926, the Imperial Conference in London confirmed the status of Canada, along with that of Australia, the Irish Free State, New Zealand, South Africa and Newfoundland, as self-governing Dominions under the British Crown.

The Statute of Westminster in 1931, an act of the British Parliament, gave legal form to this declaration. It gave Canada and other Dominions the authority to make their own laws.

Powers of the King were gradually transferred to the Governor-General, culminating in 1947 with the Letters Patent Constituting the Office of Governor-General, which authorized the Governor-General to exercise all the powers of the Sovereign in Canada, on the advice of the Canadian government.

There have been further constitutional changes in some of the Commonwealth realms during The Queen's reign.

The UK Parliament's Canada Act of 1982 enacted constitutional amendments which enabled the British North America Act to be replaced. It laid down that the future amendment of the constitution should be the prerogative of Canada.

Any change to the position of The Queen or her representatives in Canada now requires the unanimous consent of the Senate, the House of Commons and the assemblies of all the provinces.

Today the various provinces of Canada each have a separate Parliament and administration, with a Lieutenant-Governor representing The Queen, appointed by the Governor-General in Council, at the head of the executive. "

Read more about it at the website listed above.

Answer 13

No!

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Answer 14

In politics and in history, a colony is a territory under the immediate political control of a state. A colony has no independent international representation, and the top-level administration of a colony is under direct control of the metropolitan state. This is does not describe Canada.

Canada is a constitutional monarchy with Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, as head of state.  The country is a parliamentary democracy with a federal system of parliamentary government and strong democratic traditions. The constitution is the supreme law of the country, and consists of written text and unwritten conventions. Executive authority is constitutionally vested in the monarch, but is in practice exercised by the Cabinet, a committee of the Queen's Privy Council, through the monarch's representative, the Governor General. As the monarch and viceroy stay apolitical and predominantly ceremonial in order to ensure the stability of government – by convention almost invariably deferring all governmental matters to their ministers in the Cabinet, who are themselves responsible to the elected House of Commons – real executive power is said to lie with the Cabinet, though the monarch and Governor General do retain the right to use discretionary powers in exceptional constitutional crisis situations.

Answer 15

Whilst Queen Elizabeth II is Head of State of Canada (all of Canada including Quebec) she has no true political power and is represented by the Canadian Governor General. Whilst is Canada ore representing Canada she is referred to as the Candian Queen, not the British Queen.

Canada is not a British Colony because it has it's own Government and Parliament and does not have to refer to the UK on anything within it's own borders.

Answer 16

I'm not a Canadian, but live right next door, watch a lot of CBC and TVOntario.

My impression is that they are not a colony, but once were and were certainly treated as such in the past.

Not any more, even though there is a Governor General.  Nominated now by Parliament or Senate (?) guess would be the latter.  Nominee blessed by and accepted by The Queen.

A Commonwealth Nation, posh group with cooperative elements at various levels.

They have a constitution, current version blessed by current Queen somewhere during late 20th.  Trudeau?   something like that.

So, my answer to your Q is NO, definitely not.

But if you go backwards in time, it becomes progressively more and more like a colony of Britain.

I am absolutely sure of that, just from things I know happened, even in 40's and early 50's.

More so further back.

I think Trudeau saved both Canada and Quebec, but that is a Yankee opinion.