* 1946 – In the Canadian Citizenship Act, the Parliament of Canada establishes the definition of Canadian citizenship.

King's government introduced the Canadian Citizenship Act in 1946, which officially created the notion of " Canadian citizens ".

" Still, though all Canadian nationals were as equally British subjects as their British counterparts prior to the implementation of the Canadian Citizenship Act in 1947, the idea of Canadian-born persons being appointed governor general was raised as early as 1919, when, at the Paris Peace Conference, Canadian prime minister Robert Borden consulted with Prime Minister of South Africa Louis Botha and the two agreed that the viceregal appointees should be long-term residents of their respective dominions.

As the embodiment of the state, the monarch tops the Canadian order of precedence and is also the locus of oaths of allegiance, required of many of the aforementioned employees of the Crown, as well as by new citizens, as per the Oath of Citizenship laid out in the Citizenship Act.

Since 1994, substantive members are the only regular citizens who are empowered to administer the Canadian Oath of Citizenship.

She subsequently published her memoirs, founded the Institute for Canadian Citizenship, and became Colonel-in-Chief of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry.

The following year, she passed the Canadian Citizenship Test with a perfect score and became a Canadian citizen.

" The title is also included in the Oath of Allegiance, which forms a part of the Oath of Citizenship, and can be found as ELIZABETH II DEI GRATIA REGINA CANADA Latin for Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God, Queen of Canada on the obverse of various medals in the Canadian honours system.

In Canada, the term " British subject " was replaced by " Commonwealth citizen " when the Canadian Citizenship Act 1947 was replaced by the Citizenship Act 1977, which came into force on 15 February 1977.

The Minister of Citizenship and Immigration () is the Minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet who is responsible for overseeing the federal government department responsible for immigration, refugee and citizenship issues, Citizenship and Immigration Canada.

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In March 2010, the Canadian Press reported that Kenney excised information about same-sex marriage legalization and the decriminalization of homosexuality in the new Citizenship and Immigration study guide for immigrants applying for Canadian citizenship, against the recommendations of his deputy minister.

* 1927 – Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, " Does the word ' Persons ' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?

In the United Kingdom, His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act was, with the consent of the Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, and South African governments, passed through parliament and the Crown thus passed to the next-in-line descendant of Sophia: Edward's brother, Prince Albert, Duke of York.

To formalise its government's consent to the abdication, the Canadian parliament passed, the following year, the Succession to the Throne Act ( 1 Geo.

Canadian scholar Richard Toporoski theorised in 1998 that " if, let us say, an alteration were to be made in the United Kingdom to the Act of Settlement 1701, providing for the succession of the Crown ... t is my opinion that the domestic constitutional law of Australia or Papua New Guinea, for example, would provide for the succession in those countries of the same person who became Sovereign of the United Kingdom.

In Canada, where the Act of Settlement is now a part of Canadian constitutional law, Tony O ' Donohue, a Canadian civic politician, took issue with the provisions that exclude Roman Catholics from the throne, and which make the monarch of Canada the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, requiring him or her to be an Anglican.

In 2002, O ' Donohue launched a court action that argued the Act of Settlement violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but the case was dismissed by the court, which found that, as the Act of Settlement is part of the Canadian constitution, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms does not have supremacy over it.

With the announcement in 2007 of the engagement of Peter Phillips to Autumn Kelly, a Roman Catholic and a Canadian, discussion about the Act of Settlement was somewhat reinvigorated.

In terms of ultra vires actions in the broad sense, a reviewing court may set aside an administrative decision if it is unreasonable ( under Canadian law, following the rejection of the " Patently Unreasonable " standard by the Supreme Court in Dunsmuir v. New Brunswick ), Wednesbury unreasonable ( under British law ), or arbitrary and capricious ( under U. S. Administrative Procedure Act and New York State law ).

295 ), the Canada Supreme Court opined that the 1906 Lord's Day Act that required most places to be closed on Sunday did not have a legitimate secular purpose, and was an unconstitutional attempt to establish a religious-based closing law in violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Following the 1852 Telegraph Act, Canada's first permanent transatlantic telegraph link was a submarine cable built in 1866 between Ireland and Newfoundland. Telegrams were sent through networks built by Canadian Pacific and Canadian National.

Canada became a kingdom in its own right on that date, but the British Parliament kept limited rights of political control over the new country that were shed by stages over the years until the last vestiges were surrendered in 1982 when the Constitution Act patriated the Canadian constitution.

The CRTC reports to the Parliament of Canada through the Minister of Canadian Heritage, which is responsible for the Broadcasting Act, and has an informal relationship with Industry Canada, which is responsible for the Telecommunications Act.

Per the Broadcasting Act the commission also gives priority to Canadian signals — many non-Canadian channels which compete with Canadian channels are thus not approved for distribution in Canada.

* Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission Act

The patriation of the Canadian constitution was achieved in 1982 when the British and Canadian parliaments passed parallel acts: the Canada Act, 1982 ( 1982, c. 11 ), in London, and the Constitution Act, 1982, in Ottawa.

* 1947 – John Stocker, Canadian voice actor

* 1947 – Ken Dryden, Canadian ice hockey player and politician

* 1947 – Marc Messier, Canadian actor

* 1881 – Albert Henderson, Canadian footballer ( d. 1947 )

* 1947 – Allan Rock, Canadian politician and diplomat

* 1917 – Ty LaForest, Canadian baseball player ( d. 1947 )

* 1947 – Claude Dubois, Canadian singer-songwriter and musician

* 2003 – Keith Magnuson, Canadian ice hockey player ( b. 1947 )

* 1947 – Lawrence Cannon, Canadian politician

* 1947 – Mickey Redmond, Canadian hockey player

* 1947 – Rex Hagon, Canadian actor and host

* 1947 – Michel Lamarche, Canadian professional wrestler

In 1947, the King issued letters patent granting his Canadian governor general permission to exercise all those powers belonging to the monarch in respect of Canada and, at the Imperial Conference of 1949, the decision was reached to use the term member of the Commonwealth instead of Dominion to refer to the non-British member states of the Commonwealth of Nations.

* 1947 – Andrea Martin, Canadian actress

* 1947 – Linda Thorson, Canadian actress

* 1870 – Richard Bedford Bennett, Canadian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Canada ( d. 1947 )

* 1947 – Ian Millar, Canadian equestrian

* 1947 – Gilles Duceppe, Canadian politician

* 1947 – Steve Mahoney, Canadian politician

* 1947 – Alan Thicke, Canadian actor and songwriter

* 1947 – Doug Henning, Canadian magician ( d. 2000 )

* 1947 – Michael Ignatieff, Canadian politician

* 1947 – Lynn Johnston, Canadian cartoonist