Comment Re:monarch/aristocracy/corporations (Score 1) 192
example: Canada is a monarchy ruled by the Queen of England, who has final say on all major government decisions.
You left out the important word "constitutional".
Canada is a constitutional monarchy that holds it's own parliament and elects its own leaders. The main power of Canada is in the Parliament of Canada. Not even the Prime Minister can rule by fiat. everything they do needs to pass through parliament, not sure about Canada but Australia has dismissed Prime Ministers before for trying to force their acts through. The Queen's representative in our respective nations, the Governor General (GG) does not hold any real power besides the power to dissolve parliament which can only be done under specific circumstances (such as a constitutional crisis, but more commonly because the ruling party has called an election and the first step is asking the GG to dissolve parliament). If Parliament is dissolved, the government goes into caretaker mode while we (as in "the people") go to the polls.
The first line from your link is:
"The monarchy of Canada is the core of both Canada's federalism and its Westminster-style parliamentary democracy,"
England has not been an absolute monarchy since the 1600's. Your information is wrong in so many ways.