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by perardi 1737 days ago
It still strikes me as a bit weird that Canada did not have its own constitution, as in technically completely independent of the British Parliament, until 1982.

And technically the head of state is…well it’s complicated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_General_of_Canada

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Yeah, similar stories and timeline in other former dominions. I find https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_v_Hill fascinating, when a court in Australia was forced to consider whether the UK was a foreign power.