NAU.: Does the Queen of Canada Become the Queen of United States?
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
By Joan M. Veon
In November, 2004, President Bush told Canada’s then Prime Minister Paul
Martin, “It’s good to be home.” Exactly what did he mean? Was he inferring
that America has been integrated into Canada’s system of government?
Was this “code language” to reveal to a group of insiders that Canada’s
queen is the Queen of the United States?
Let’s take a look at what we know about our relationship with Canada. They
have become America’s largest trading partner—surpassing our trade
with Japan. On a daily basis the volume is over $1B or about $400B
a year. Twenty-three percent of American exports are sent to Canada
and more than 80% of Canada’s exports come to us. They are the largest
export market for 39 of the 50 states. We import 80% of Canada’s wood,
paper, and pulp and 17% of their oil and 18% of their natural gas.
Furthermore, we not only share energy grids all across the northern
borders, but New England obtains most of their power from Quebec.
Financially, the Nasdaq Stock Exchange owns 30% of the London Stock Exchange and
there are plans to erase the barriers between the Canadian and American
stock exchanges. Recently the U.S. adopted the UK style of securities
regulation. The currencies between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico are
becoming one. This new
currency, the Amero, will be the common currency for this hemisphere.
From a military standpoint, over the past 46 years, America has been inextricably
linked to Canada through our joint military efforts through the North
American Aerospace Defense Command-NORAD. On September 11, 2001, it
was a Canadian general who was holding the chair at NORAD and who
gave the order to initiate our defenses. As a result, more than 200
commercial planes were diverted to airports across the U.S. and from
coast to coast. Since then both countries have implemented measures
to strengthen military cooperation as well as law enforcement and
intelligence agencies. In 2002, the two countries established the
Bi-national Planning Group to develop joint plans for maritime and
land defense and for military support to civil authorities in times
of emergency. There are plans to move ahead with a common ballistic
missile defense system.
Under the new partnership called “Common Security, Common Prosperity, A
New Partnership in North America”, the U.S. and Canada, will cooperate
to expand business opportunities, protect the environment, improve
intelligence-sharing and cross-border law enforcement, counter-terrorism,
increase critical infrastructure such as transportation, energy, and
communications networks, and renew the NORAD agreement. In addition
there are plans to cooperate on clean air and clean water initiatives,
especially in the Great Lakes Region.
In June 2007, the Financial Times reported that Bush is going to back
a treaty to “tackle one of the most contentious issues in relations
between the two countries by allowing Britain to buy defense products
from American companies without having to obtain export licenses.
[T]he treaty would represent a victory for the UK prime minister who
has lobbied George W. Bush over this long-standing disagreement between
the two.” Currently only Canada has a waiver! Do we see the integration
of our countries yet? Therefore in order to ask if the Queen of Canada
will become the Queen of America, we need to take a look at Canada’s
political structure. While it appears to be like ours, it is not.
There is an executive level which we do not have which consists of
the queen, the queen’s representative and her Privy Council.
According to Wikipedia, Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional
monarchy with Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state and queen of
Canada with a federal system of parliamentary government. The Canadian
Constitution, renamed the Constitution Act of 1867 in 1982, states
that Canada’s constitution is “similar in principle to that of the
UK” and divides the powers between the federal and provincial governments.
The governmental structure is made up of the Executive Branch which
is comprised of: the Executive (the Queen), the Governor General,
the queen’s representative in Canada who formally appoints the prime
minister and their cabinet; the Queen’s Privy Council, the Prime Minister
and the Cabinet; the Legislature and the Judiciary. You can see that
the Queen has her own Council which is over the rest of the government!
Wikipedia states that The Privy Council is the council of advisers to the Queen
of Canada whose members are appointed by the Governor General of Canada
for life on the advice of the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister and
his Cabinet are all sworn into the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada
and become MINISTERS OF THE CROWN.
The Queen’s Privy Council for Canada was established by the British North
America Act and is modeled after Britain’s Privy Council. The formal
authority of the council is vested in the Canadian Monarch but is
exercised by the Prime Minister and the Canadian Cabinet who make
up a minority of the Council’s members. Every member of the Privy
Council declares an oath to the queen which in part is,
I
[name] do solemnly and sincerely swear that I shall be a true and
faithful servant to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, as a
member of Her Majesty’s Privy Council for Canada. Generally, in
all things I shall do as a faithful and true servant ought to do
for Her Majesty.
The Queen is represented in Canada by the Governor General which she appoints
on the advice of the Prime Minister. Every Canadian Providence has
a Lieutenant Governor who represents the queen there. Upon taking
office, the Governor General takes an Oath of Allegiance:
I [name] do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance
to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, Her Heirs and successors,
according to law. So Help me God.
The Governor General’s functions are primarily ceremonial. As representative
of the Sovereign, the Governor General performs some of the functions
normally associated with heads of state. He or she makes state visits
abroad, hosts foreign heads of state, receives ambassadors and high
commissioners, meets ceremonial groups, and awards medals, decorations
and prizes. He or she serves the symbolic role as the Commander-in-Chief
of Canadian Forces and fills this position in the name of the queen.
The Armed Forces of Canada swear allegiance to the Canadian Crown
and not to the sitting and transient government.
The Governor General and the Lieutenant Governors are also representatives
of “The Crown.” The concept of the Crown took form under the feudal
system, evolving from various concepts of kingship. Under England’s
feudal system, all rights and privileges were ultimately granted by
the ruler. The rights of the Crown are exercised by the Queen’s representatives
in her various realms and dominions. It is the queen who is the Commander
in Chief of the Canadian Armed Forces. The queen through the Governor
General also has the power to dissolve parliament.
The Queen’s official title is “Elizabeth the Second by the Grace of God,
of the United Kingdom, Canada and Her other Realms and Territories
Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith.” When the
queen ascended the throne, there was discussion as to her official
title, then Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent said, “Her Majesty is
now Queen of Canada but she is the Queen of Canada because she is
the Queen of the United Kingdom…It is not a separate office.” Furthermore,
the style, “Queen of Canada” is included in the Oath of Allegiance,
as well as the Oath of Citizenship. While the prime minister is considered
head of government, it is the queen who is head of state.
If the governmental structure of Canada is like that of the UK, we need
to consider the ties Canada has with England. In November 2004 when
Bush declared it was “good to be home,” he pledged the following:
My country is determined to work as far as possible within the framework
of international organizations and we’re hoping that other nations
will work with us to make those institutions more relevant and more
effective in meeting the unique threats of our time.
Was Bush talking about the Commonwealth, the United Nations or both? If
he was speaking about the Commonwealth, we need to understand that
the Commonwealth is a brilliant plan devised back in the 1920s by
the Royal Institute for International Affairs, which is financed by
the estate of Cecil Rhodes, to make it appear that the various colonies,
territories and dominions of the United Kingdom were given “independence”
and were totally free of British rule. However, that is not the real
case. Although they were given “independence,” the British never left.
They just changed the structure of government to accommodate the sovereign
as head of state and not head of government. This historical feat
was accomplished through the Balfour Declaration in 1926 when Britain
and its dominions agreed they were
equal
in status, in no way subordinate one to another in any aspect of
their domestic or external affairs, though united by common allegiance
to the Crown and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth
of Nations.
This was formalized by the Statute of Westminster in 1931. While colonies
were given legislative independence, it automatically set the basis
for continuing the relationship through the Commonwealth in which
they share allegiance to the monarch! Pretty amazing.
The Queen is not only Queen of Canada, but Queen of the following Commonwealth
countries in our hemisphere: Antigua and Barbuda; The Bahamas; Barbados;
Belize; Grenada; Guyana, Jamaica; For St Kitts and Nevis: St. Christopher
and Nevis; St. Lucia; and St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Trinidad
and Tobago.
The Commonwealth today has 53 sovereign states with Queen Elizabeth II
as head of the Commonwealth. The Queen’s position is recognized by
each state and as such is the symbol of the free association of the
organization’s members. The 16 members where the queen is head of
state are called Commonwealth Realms. Decolonization started in 1931
with Canada, South Africa and Australia; in the 1940s: India, New
Zealand, and Sir Lanka; in the 1950s: Ghana and Malaysia; In the 1960s:
twenty more: Barbados, Botswana, Cyprus, Gambia, Guyana, Jamaica,
Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Malta, Mauritius, Nauru, Nigeria, Sierra Leone,
Singapore, Swaziland, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda and Zambia.
During the 1970s, nine more: the Bahamas, Bangladesh, Dominica, Fiji,
Grenada, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the
Grenadines, Samoa, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Tuvalu.
During the 1980s, seven more: Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Brunei,
Maldives, Pakistan, St. Kitts and Nevis, and Vanuatu and in the 1990s,
three more: Cameroon, Mozambique and Namibia.
As each country obtained independence, they received a vote at the United
Nations. Therefore, the Commonwealth has the potential of 54 votes
at the United Nations. Throughout the entire international structure,
the United States is OUTVOTED by the Commonwealth. In the Group of
Eight, Canada and the United Kingdom outvote the U.S. While the U.S.
has 50 states, we only receive one vote at the United Nations! Furthermore
in this hemisphere there are 13 Commonwealth countries that swear
allegiance to the queen.
While the Commonwealth bills itself as a free and voluntary association,
several years ago, I separately interviewed three representatives
from three different African countries. When I asked why they don’t
go to Britain for help, they said there was no help from them. When
I asked why they don’t withdraw from the Commonwealth, they each looked
at me with terror and said they could not.
We Americans would be extremely naive if we thought that Britain was
a good loser over the outcome of the American Revolution and the Battle
of New Orleans in 1812. As explained in a previous article, “Treason
in the Congress,” there is a very, very powerful group of men
whose money runs the world both here in Britain and the U.S. These
Pilgrims swear allegiance to the Crown and have been working since
1902 and 1903 respectively to bring America back under British rule.
While it appears Senator Charles Schumer is a Pilgrim, maybe we need
to ask if our president, who is distantly related to the queen, is
also a Pilgrim. It appears he does not swear allegiance to the Constitution!
Perhaps NAFTA was the beginning of a bloodless coup and the Common
Security and Prosperity Partnership sealed the merger between the
U.S., Canada, and Britain. Just maybe the Queen of Canada is indeed
the Queen of the United States! It is time for TRUE AMERICANS TO WAKE
UP!
 
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Joan Veon is a businesswoman and international reporter, having covered 75 Global meetings around the world in the last
ten years. She is the aurthor of two books "United Nations Global Strait Jacket
", and "Prince Charles: The Sustainable Prince
".
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