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There are 14 remaining British Territories. Canada could hardly be considered a Colony , under any circumstances. No more or less than the USA is part of the British Monarchy. The last vestiges of a Commonwealth status under the British flag ,went away in 1931, for Canada.
I would say that a Country ( spelled with a capital C ) , is any place that is not a territory.......A country could be ( with a small c ) , about any place, from " I went for a ride in the country , to " no country for old men "..........
A law enacted by the Canadian Parliament or any provincialk parliament is not valid until it is signed by a representative of Queen Elizabeth II.
You refer to the post of Governor General;, as representative of the Queen of England........Mostly a historical , tradition . The post is actually approved by the Prime Minster , and , as of late has been a Canadian born person.
The order of the day , is in play now , before parliament.I do not follow all this , can be quite complicated , conflicting , and contested , as to protocol. There has been , and is now , a movement to disband Parliament , and to appoint a president , and a republic form of Government. Then we have the French Canadians , another problem........bottom line , England has little influence over Canadian affairs. By the way , it takes a unanimous majority of Provincial members to approve , the Governor General 's approval of actions taken by the Parliament.......all about tradition, and , in my mind , a waste of time,... a thought shared by most of the Canadian friends I have.
Nevertheless, there is a continuum down through the British Commonwealth, and it is hard to specify exactly where is the line that separates countries from colonies. Would you call the Channel Islands of Guernsey and Jersey countries? They have no representation in the British Parliament, and laws passed by Parliament do not apply to the Islands unless there is a specific order in council.
It's almost as confusing as the issue of what entities can send separate sports teams to international competitions (like the Olympics, World Cup, etc.). Once you settle on the definition, you get the answer, but until then it's doomed to ambiguity.
It really gets confusing when I try to keep a list of all the countries I've been in. Do I count them as the countries they were at the time, or as the countries they are now. If I was all over Yugoslavia when it was one country, do I now get to count it as five, or still just one? Do I still get to count East and West Germany as two countries? Do I get to count Gibraltar as a separate "entity" but not Puerto Rico?
For how long, each day, is it the same day at every point on earth?
I think you'd have to work this one out exhaustively, paying careful attention to what happens out in the Central Pacific. Time zones range from UTC-12 to UTC+14 (seasonally, I think, so DST in the two hemispheres could enter) and the boundaries on those are more political than geometric.
I think you'd have to work this one out exhaustively, paying careful attention to what happens out in the Central Pacific. Time zones range from UTC-12 to UTC+14 (seasonally, I think, so DST in the two hemispheres could enter) and the boundaries on those are more political than geometric.
That would seem to mean that there are 26 (full hour) time zones, which would imply that there can be a place where it is two days at once!
This is beginning to remind me of the logician who was sentenced to death. He was told that he would be executed at sunruse one morning next month, but would not know which day it would be until informed the previous evening. He concluded that his execution date could not be the 31st, because if he were still alive at noon on the 30th, he would know before evening that that was to be the day, inconsistent with the terms. Having eliminated that date, it must be from the first through the 30th. But then he would know which day at noon on the 29th. And so forth, right back to the present. Therefore, he argued, that his sentence must be vacated, owing to the logical impossibility of carrying it out.
Actually, I argued this point with my distraught mother when I was about 12. We had company, and after everyone had helped themselves to dessert, there were two pieces of cake left. I took one. Later I was chastized for leaving only one piece, which everyone else would be too polite to take, and therefore denied. I thought it over and replied that if there were three pieces, I could not take one, either, because nobody would then be allowed to take one if there are only two. And since I could not take one if there were only 3, I could not leave anyone else with that dilemma if there were 4 left. Ad nauseam.
This is beginning to remind me of the logician who was sentenced to death. He was told that he would be executed at sunruse one morning next month, but would not know which day it would be until informed the previous evening. He concluded that his execution date could not be the 31st, because if he were still alive at noon on the 30th, he would know before evening that that was to be the day, inconsistent with the terms. Having eliminated that date, it must be from the first through the 30th. But then he would know which day at noon on the 29th. And so forth, right back to the present. Therefore, he argued, that his sentence must be vacated, owing to the logical impossibility of carrying it out.
Actually, I argued this point with my distraught mother when I was about 12. We had company, and after everyone had helped themselves to dessert, there were two pieces of cake left. I took one. Later I was chastized for leaving only one piece, which everyone else would be too polite to take, and therefore denied. I thought it over and replied that if there were three pieces, I could not take one, either, because nobody would then be allowed to take one if there are only two. And since I could not take one if there were only 3, I could not leave anyone else with that dilemma if there were 4 left. Ad nauseam.
Let them eat cake.....the order of the day, so appropriate these days.
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