Quenn Lizzies trip, a few hours here and a few hours there meen while the bill just keeps rising, surely the "richest " women in the world could pay her own way. She will aparently stay just 6 hours in WPeg which will also cost a small fortune
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/...541/story.html

When you got to a concert you don't expect the band to pay for you. This is like Canada buying a collective ticket.

But a band gives value for money,and are seen by those that are willing to pay for that right, she just a waives hardly value for money and we all have to pay for it. A poll last month showed that 55% of Canadians didn't care if she came or not

She's the head of the Commonwealth, its their duty to pay for a visit. They can suck it up or piss off.

I'd want a small fortune if you wanted me to stay in Winipeg for 6 hours

She gets £7.9 million a year from taxes and apparently thats not enough...

The Commonwealth should be a unity of ideas and people, not an excuse to have an overpaid head of state.

I think you'll find that the Canadian Head of State has been invited to Canada by the Canadian Government. If the Canadian people don't want the Queen as their head of state they can vote for a government that will change that situation.

As the UK pays all the significant costs concerning the head of state, Canada does pretty well by leasing a head of state on the cheap.

Or even better get her to piss off

So 45% do care. That should be enough to justify the cost.

I'm sensing you aren't a big fan of the Queen?

"Queen" Elizabeth will be the last "Queen" of Canada and probably Australia. No one gives a sh*t about the "Queen" over here, a few old ladies maybe, that is about it.

She's got to be the worst spounger of the social system ever, people moan about the immigrants in the UK getting everything handed to them on a plate and paid for biut fail to see the greatest social parasite Queen Lizzie

£7.9M is peanuts. Can you even begin to imagine what it would cost to get rid of her?

Reprinting just about every piece of government literature. Changing stamps and banknotes. Endless constitutional debates in parliament........

The cost would run to many billions. And that's just in Canada.

The monarchy doesn't do any harm and it doesn't have any real power. I don't see the point in spending vast amounts of money to fix something that is not really broken.

I see an analogy with the USA not going metric. It would cost an obscene amount of money just to change the road signs.

60 million people in the UK, and 8 million in taxes, what's that? less than a pound per person? If you get rid of the monarchy you have to have an alternative head of state; unless you want your head of state to be publicly politically biased. That head of state would need all the trappings if you want to present your country as something other than a Ruritania.

Whatever the name is someone will need to do the job and the same amount will be spent, maybe more.

If you are looking at the UK then the Monarchy, the pomp etc brings in megamoney in tourism.

As for Canada, I've seen more pictures of the Queen on display here than I ever did in the UK, that seems odd to me. You would think Canadians would want to display their independence more. I've heard people call Canada Day Dominion Day.

Much of the dislike of the institution of the Monarchy is really a dislike of a feudal system, them and us, lords and peasants. I have no time for that no-one is inherently better than another because of the family they were born in. However I see no point in applying my dislike of the institution to individuals.

A bit of a stupid argument this Souvy, coz when she pops her clogs and her she will be replaced by whom ever so the cost will be their any way..