Hello my Canadian friends! This Aussie has questions... [View all]

The most important one first:

1. Do you get a public holiday to mourn the Queen? We do!
2. Was yr parliament suspended? If so, for how long? Here in Australia, it's for 15 days, but in the UK it's only 10 days.
3. Is there a movement for Canada to become a Republic? If so, do you think it'll pick up momentum now the Queen is dead?
4. I read a recent thread talking about how the Queen suspended parliament at the request of a RW PM. I'm not sure how familiar any of you are with what happened here in 1975, where the Governor General sacked the government . The Queen was dragged into that, and about a decade later, the Australia Act came into being, which meant nothing like that could ever happen again . In a nutshell, it's an 'Act to bring constitutional arrangements affecting the Commonwealth and the States into conformity with the status of the Commonwealth of Australia as a sovereign, independent and federal nation'. You guys don't have something similar??