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This is a list of American citizens who have held titles of nobility from other countries. Nobility is not granted by the United States itself under the Title of Nobility Clause of the Constitution .
The list includes the names of recently elected or appointed heads of state and government who will take office on an appointed date, as presidents-elect and prime ministers–designate, and those leading a government-in-exile if internationally recognised.
Name (Birth–Death) Term of office Electoral mandates (Assembly) Political party Riding Cabinet Ref. 1 (1 of 2) John A. Macdonald (1815–1891) 1 July 1867 5 November 1873 Title created (caretaker government)
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The Canadian titles debate originated with the presentation to the House of Commons of Canada of the Nickle Resolution in 1917. This resolution marked the earliest attempt to establish a federal government policy requesting the sovereign, in the right of the United Kingdom, not to grant knighthoods, baronetcies, and peerages to Canadians and set the precedent for later policies restricting ...
However, some sources, instead, put this date at 1535, when the word Canada was first used to refer to the French colony of Canada, [21] which was founded in the name of King Francis I. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] Monarchical governance subsequently evolved under a continuous succession of French, British, and eventually uniquely Canadian sovereigns. [ 28 ]
Prime minister (List of prime ministers): Justin Trudeau; Cabinet (List of Canadian ministries): 29th Canadian Ministry; President of the Privy Council; Clerk of the Privy Council; Privy Council Office; Public Service; Provincial and territorial executive councils. Premiers
Canada is a federation that comprises ten provinces and three territories. Its government is structured as a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary democracy, with a monarch as its sovereign and a Prime Minister as its head of government. Each of the country's provinces and territories also has a head of government, called premier in English.