Belz...
Fiend God
I've asked you to provide evidence that Canada is referred to as a republic, not your personal application of a definition. So far you have not been able to come up with anything. I've shown you that the only popular use of the word republic in relation to Canada is of campaigners to make Canada a republic. Why do you suppose they would do that if, as you believe, Canada is already a republic?
Don't worry. I will wait.![]()
The definition provided at post #14 would not include Canada. The head of state of Canada is Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada Queen Elizabeth II (and the Captain General of the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery to use her proper title).
A republic does not have a monarch as a head of state - full stop.
Canada is constitutional monarchy with a democratically elected lower house.
It's not my personal application of the definition. The definition is clear:
b(1) : a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law
This applies to Canada and Japan despite them having a monarch as well. This is what happens with terms with multiple definitions: each definition establishes a different set of what is and is not part of it.
And AGAIN, this is not what the thread is about.