The United States and Canada are owned by the Crown.

[Pottapaug1938]

On one of our favorite Planets, a post tells us that "t has been said that, 'the Crown' owns Canada & the 'United States', this seems to be further proof of that fact." Another post, written by someone whose posts are usually theologically-based, adds "[t]he phrase 'the United States and Canada' smacks of a singularity (i.e. mathematical union) IMHO". The proof:

http://www.dmv.ny.gov/forms/fs113.pdf

Wow.

[notorial dissent]

Amazing what constitutes proof, or reality for that matter, in the land of the lost.

[Burnaby49]

As I posted over two years ago in the "The Infection is Heading North" discussion the Queen does indeed own Canada, at least those parts purportedly owned by the government.

BTW I was, legally, not an employee of the government of Canada but an employee of the Queen since she owns everything anyhow. As Wikipedia says on the issue;

As the living embodiment of the Crown, the sovereign is regarded as the personification of the Canadian state . . . . . . . . The state is therefore referred to as Her Majesty The Queen in Right of Canada or The Crown in Right of Canada, and the monarch's legal personality is sometimes referred to simply as Canada.

As such, the king or queen of Canada is the employer of all government officials and staff (including the viceroys, judges, members of the Canadian Forces, police officers, and parliamentarians), the guardian of foster children (Crown wards), as well as the owner of all state lands (Crown land), buildings and equipment (Crown held property), state owned companies (Crown corporations), and the copyright for all government publications (Crown copyright) This is all in his or her position as sovereign, and not as an individual; all such property is held by the Crown in perpetuity and cannot be sold by the sovereign without the proper advice and consent of his or her ministers.

As the embodiment of the state, the monarch tops the Canadian order of precedence and is also the locus of oaths of allegiance, required of many of the aforementioned employees of the Crown, as well as by new citizens, as per the Oath of Citizenship laid out in the Citizenship Act. This is done in reciprocation to the sovereign's Coronation Oath, wherein he or she promises "to govern the Peoples of... Canada... according to their respective laws and customs."

[Pottapaug1938]

The "stupid" is getting deeper and deeper on that Planet. Not only does someone cite Dean Clifford as an authority on this proposition, another contributor offers:

Have you noticed that they stated the vehicle has been removed for "international traffic"?
TRAFFIC is criminal law meaning the sale and distribution of illegal materials, notably narcotics.

Ouch....

[LPC]

On one of our favorite Planets, a post tells us that "t has been said that, 'the Crown' owns Canada & the 'United States', this seems to be further proof of that fact." Another post, written by someone whose posts are usually theologically-based, adds "[t]he phrase 'the United States and Canada' smacks of a singularity (i.e. mathematical union) IMHO". The proof:

http://www.dmv.ny.gov/forms/fs113.pdf

Wow.

Did we ever establish criteria for the "Evel Knievel Memorial Leap of Illogic Award"?

[Pottapaug1938]

On one of our favorite Planets, a post tells us that "t has been said that, 'the Crown' owns Canada & the 'United States', this seems to be further proof of that fact." Another post, written by someone whose posts are usually theologically-based, adds "[t]he phrase 'the United States and Canada' smacks of a singularity (i.e. mathematical union) IMHO". The proof:

http://www.dmv.ny.gov/forms/fs113.pdf

Wow.

Did we ever establish criteria for the "Evel Knievel Memorial Leap of Illogic Award"?

We should do that; and we could, like the Academy Awards, come up with a whole class of awards, like a "Bisocionarcoleptic Word Generator Award" for excellence in word salad production.

[grixit]

Advanced Resonance Plastic Fuzzies for the dumbest claim to scientific accomplishments, which would have nothing to do with the topic at hand even if it were true.

[ArthurWankspittle]

Advanced Resonance Plastic Fuzzies for the dumbest claim to scientific accomplishments, which would have nothing to do with the topic at hand even if it were true.

That should be more Nobel Prize than Academy Awards. How about the Quatloos NoBrain Prize for attempting to set back Science?

[Gregg]

Advanced Resonance Plastic Fuzzies for the dumbest claim to scientific accomplishments, which would have nothing to do with the topic at hand even if it were true.

That should be more Nobel Prize than Academy Awards. How about the Quatloos NoBrain Prize for attempting to set back Science?

For which I would have to nominate Hope Girl and the QEG!

[JamesVincent]

Advanced Resonance Plastic Fuzzies for the dumbest claim to scientific accomplishments, which would have nothing to do with the topic at hand even if it were true.

That should be more Nobel Prize than Academy Awards. How about the Quatloos NoBrain Prize for attempting to set back Science?

For which I would have to nominate Hope Girl and the QEG!

Seconded.

[fortinbras]

[Moderator: The Observer] Political comment removed.

[Patriotdiscussions]

How would this link fit in with all that?

http://www.britannia.com/history/docs/johncon.html

[Pottapaug1938]

How would this link fit in with all that?

http://www.britannia.com/history/docs/johncon.html

Irrelevant.