{"id":30780,"date":"2015-03-31T01:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T05:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=30780"},"modified":"2015-03-24T21:09:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T01:09:31","slug":"qotd-the-constitutional-issue-for-canadians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/03\/31\/qotd-the-constitutional-issue-for-canadians\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The constitutional issue for Canadians"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In a normal country, like say Botswana or Mongolia, modernizing a constitution is just one of those things that politicians get around to doing once in a generation or so. It&#8217;s no big deal. But then again in these countries, not run by crazy people, updating your basic legal instrument isn&#8217;t seen as a threat to national unity. Imagine sitting down with an American or Frenchman and saying, with a straight face, that if they were to attempt to amend their constitutions it would provoke a national unity crisis. They&#8217;d think you were nuts or the country in question was some third rate third world banana republic.<\/p>\n<p>Our constitution complex is one of those weird quirks of the national psyche. A nation of accountants who, on the weekends, like to play Russian roulette just to take the edge off. We are a boring country, boring as a matter of principle really, but we decided that when it comes to arcane legal questions we&#8217;re willing to blow the whole place up. Just because.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Anderson, <a href=\"http:\/\/godscopybook.blogs.com\/gpb\/2015\/03\/please-god-no-anything-but-this.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Please God No. Anything But This&#8221;, <em>The Gods of the Copybook Headings<\/em><\/a>, 2015-03-23.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a normal country, like say Botswana or Mongolia, modernizing a constitution is just one of those things that politicians get around to doing once in a generation or so. It&#8217;s no big deal. But then again in these countries, not run by crazy people, updating your basic legal instrument isn&#8217;t seen as a threat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,84,41],"tags":[715],"class_list":["post-30780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-government","category-quotations","tag-constitution"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-80s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30781,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30780\/revisions\/30781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}