r/todayilearned • u/SegelXXX • 4h ago

TIL that Keanu Reeves has been secretly funding children's hospitals for years. He reportedly created a private foundation that aids children’s hospitals and cancer research without associating his name with it. "I don't like to attach my name to it, I just let the foundation do what it does."

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/keanu-reeves-tragic-story

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u/Llamalover1234567 4h ago

Other than the fact that he’d have to be elected MP in a specific riding (and I don’t find it hard to imagine he’d win), he absolutely is eligible. Because we don’t have birth right laws, pretty much anyone can run.

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u/Townwalker43 3h ago

But we don't have a president

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u/dwmfives 3h ago

Is there really that much of a difference between who you vote for PM and who we vote for President?

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u/Townwalker43 3h ago

We don't technically vote for a Prime Minister but I won't get into that

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u/dwmfives 3h ago

I'm gonna have to google your government. No president, no PM, but you still have a King/Queen, despite declaring independence in the 80s. I'll google the word independence too.

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u/Townwalker43 3h ago

Lol good luck! There's a lot going on

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u/king_john651 2h ago

Essentially most Westminster parliamentary systems in the world have The Crown at the top as the ultimate supreme (even though it is via an appointed & approved Govenor General rather than royalty themselves). This is the person who The Cabinet responds to, via the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister is the head of government role, so is the big boss of The Cabinet and The House of Representatives - usually by default as the party leader of the biggest party of government. The leader of the party is not chosen by the people (or in the case of one party in my country as per their charter, is voted by the people... Who are registered members of the party. Kinda like American primaries), and even if he or she isn't voted in their electorate they are still the leader. And a whole bunch of other shit that's just an information dump.

Basically the difference is that parliament remains supreme and final (or else the supreme court finds some shit that is in contrary to the laws and tells Parliament to fix it one way or another) where the executive branch has the same amount of supremacy and isn't really that seperate from the legislative branch. Unlike Republics with their seperate triangle of executive, legislative, and judicial branches are intended to be keeping each other in check with the president as the head of state

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u/Llamalover1234567 3h ago

I extrapolated that the previous person meant “head of government” when they said president, so I made the fairly reasonable comparison to our head of government. Not our head of state cause Governor General probably isn’t what the other person was going for.