'Roo Republic

Australian PM Kevin Rudd reaffirms his support to an Australian republic.

Here's hoping we follow suit. It seems silly for Canada to hang on to a heritage that is being absorbed into the broader European Union. Whether Canadians would admit this to pollsters or not, but we're more aligned with Yankee values than we are with Euro-Brit values.

Any average Canadian wholly expects the American system of rights to be taken as his own, perhaps with the exception of the second amendment, but they do none the less. What better way to to entrench those rights with the birth of a republic?