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Originally Posted by Julio
About abolishing the monarchy: What a lot of people don't get is that if you do that there has to be somebody who does the duties of that office. In most democracies that are not constitutional monarchies there is an official either appointed or elected that doesn't have a lot of power, but does a lot of the ceremonial roles that the Queen or Governor General/Lieutenant-Governor do. Electing such an official would cost a lot more than we pay for the GG/monarchy now IMO.
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Plus, all of contracts, titles, laws, agreements, treaties, Parliamentary Acts, etc currently between the Crown and XYZ would need to be accounted for.