But regardless, I was using the term culturally rather than legally. Perhaps “Head of Nation” is a more accurate term?

Maybe Boss? That would also tie into Alex’s writing.

I assert that Clarkson took some Head of Statism from the Queen and Harper took some from Jean. But regardless, I was using the term culturally rather than legally. Perhaps “Head of Nation” is a more accurate term?

In Canada we have threeish heads of state: the Queen, the Governor General and the Prime Minister.

OK, OK, I know you not writing a political science textbook here, I know that threeish != three, and I’m sure that you yourself are aware of these distinctions, but I feel compelled to state the following.

Just because the United States does not understand the differences between head of state and head of government, that does not make the prime minister even slightly or sort-of or kind-of our head of state.

And just because the governors general of late, and more so the advisors at Rideau Hall, have displayed a mixture of vaingloriousness, misinformation, disloyalty, and fringe theories, the governor general is not our head of state.