A hold-over from the British Empire days. It’s not like there was a separate New Brunswick or even Canadian citizenship back then.
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Now that I know that the pool of potential candidates was much, much larger than I thought, Boris Johnson looks even worse in context.
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There’s no legal reason stopping Justin Trudeau from being Prime Minister of the UK though.
Does someone want to pay his deposit to run for parliament?
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And just to make things even more fun, “Commonwealth citizen” doesn’t necessarily mean “citizen of a Commonwealth country”. For example, citizens of Zimbabwe, which left the Commonwealth in 2003, are nonetheless still classed as Commonwealth citizens, whereas citizens of the Maldives, which left in 2016, aren’t.
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Sorry, we kind of need him as a placeholder right now. If the Canadian Conservatives lose, Andrew Scheer would be redundant, replaced by Jason Kenney. We could spare him, and Maxime Bernier.
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Sorry, we need someone better than de Pfeffel. Can we have Jagmeet Singh instead?
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Not a high bar. Is this guy busy?
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If we’re allowed sports mascots, and history says that we are (Hangus the Monkey, ex mayor of Hartlepool), then I nominate this individual
We need someone brave enough to face the mess we got ourselves into, and I think anyone who is willing to dress up as a scrotum qualifies.
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Can a bawbag deliver the Scottish vote?
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I think it was Churchill who said, “Life is a testis and this world a place of trial.”
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We need another mascot for the Scottish vote.
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Rihanna was born in Barbados, a Commonwealth country, and thus is directly eligible to be Prime Minister.
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That’s what I said (about the eligibility). Her Barbados citizenship is the reason I gave her as an example of a non-UK person who was eligible to be PM. (Ditto Bieber for Canada) They’re also both born past the time anyone theoretically could have called them a British subject.
Being in the Commonwealth isn’t the same as being British.
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In Heavenly Creatures, Peter Jackson’s first serious film (AFAIK), it’s presented as a class issue-- Juliet Hulme was from the mother country, while Pauline Parker wasn’t.
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Well, but also, Juliet’s family was very much upper class, while Pauline’s was working class - they’re shown as taking in lodgers to make ends meet for example, while Juliet lives in a huge, rambling house. But location likely has something to do with it, too.
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Especially after 1962.
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Even during the time of empire, the legal term “British subject” (applied to people in the colonies) could be interpreted to mean “a person who is a respected agent of the British imperial project” or it could mean “an outsider who is definitely not British, but is subject to the laws of the British crown”. Both of these definitions were used, depending on the context. (Often on the same class of people.)
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Ah, I misunderstood your point. Also, I like the idea of Rihanna as PM. 
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Right? People must not even know it’s an option…
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