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Andrew Caddell writes that though he respects the Queen, pictured with her husband Prince Philip in Ottawa in 2010, she is mortal, and she and her heirs reside in a foreign country and it would make sense to have her be the last Canadian head of state living in the U.K. The Hill Times file photograph
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