The British crown need not hold any more power here It is time to sever ties with those who have oppressed for centuries The country of Canada is a constitutional monarchy. This means that the Crown has authority but must exercise it in accordance with the constitution of the nation-state. Since the first settlers came to Turtle Island, they have considered themselves to be under the rule of a monarchy. Not necessarily the same one, but there has always been a monarchy that has had jurisdiction over settlers in Canada. Everything that the Canadian state has ever done, for, against, or with Indigenous nations is on behalf of the abstract but legally binding idea of the Crown. The Crown is credited with the signing of the numbered treaties among other things. This also means that crimes against Indigenous nations, like the residential school system, have technically been on behalf of the British crown.