Ah, apologies, i was thinking you were across the pond. It’s illegal to call someone by a former title? Or to be a Lord?

To be a lord. No canadian can be a lord/knight.

🤔 i didn’t know that. Like, it precludes dual citizenship? If you’re born with a title to one UK parent, you can’t be a Canadian citizen? Or you just can’t use the title?

That's a good question. I think it would apply to anyone. But if you're born with it, i don't know en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadia...

Conrad Black, the Canadian newspaper man, famously renounced his canadian citizenship just so he could claim his title in the house of lords. He's also an american citizen.

That tracks. I dunno, i tend to think all the countries that were founded by white Europeans have a collective mishmash of carried-over traditions that don’t make sense, and reactive laws trying to protect some colonizing values while eschewing others. I doubt there’s much logic involved.

Yeah, I agree with you. That's also why all water bodies are publicly owned here - so nothing belongs to the king or a local lord. Canada clearly had a lot of regular plebes in the nation-building.

I remember that. I didn't realize he was dual

Yeah. And then he went to American jail iirc. (For not house of lords stuff)

I remember reading Barbara Frum's essay about visiting him in prison and rubbing shoulder with other wives in the waiting room That was special

Bahahaha! Omfg!