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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 7439646" data-attributes="member: 6716779">No the Queen actually has a lot of constitutional power here.  The only one she uses is to reopen parliament. The governor general can fire the prime minister and I think she can dissolve parliament as well.She never uses her power but theoretically she can stop the rise of say a fascist government. If her use of the power was not popular, I imagine we would become a republic fairly quickly. The police/armed forces would not launch a coup but say there was a minority government that convinced some stupid minor party to coalition with them and turn the country into a dictatorship in theory she can dissolve parliament and fire the Prime Minister via the governor general. If they refused to go legally the Police (independent of parliament) could arrest them and new elections would be called. In practice it would depend on how popular the current prime minster would be and if the Police would choose sides, collude or do nothing. Technically we are a constitutional monarchy (we have no constitution). The armed forces are supposed to be loyal to the governor general not the government.</blockquote>