Most Canadians have been indoctrinated to believe they have a democracy

Good evening, affirmation! I'll be rebutting the round 2 response by breaking it up into pieces and addressing the parts with numbered arguments. "US declared it's independence from Britain-Canada did not. Canada was a colony and not a democracy as defined by Blacks law Dictionary." 1. Black's law dictionary definition of a democracy, as stated above, is simply "that form of government in which the sovereign power resides in and is exercised by the whole body of free citizens directly or indirectly through a system of representation, as distinguished from a monarchy, aristocracy, or oligarchy." The citizens must be free, but Black's Law makes no mention of national sovereignty. The two can be distinguished in a case such as Canada's, in which no human rights violations are being documented or perpetrated.. As I stated in round 1 in my conclusion, the citizens of Canada, empirically, are just as free as the citizens of the United States with respect to self-governance. Canadians vote in their parliamentary members, who form majority parties, who then have their pick of PM via a Governor General who is appointed by the specific advice of the Canadian PM position and who will inevitably pick a new PM from the majority party. " First you have to be free and sovereign and you have not produced any hansard record of any debate or bill stating Canada is free from British rule and is now a sovereign country. It may look like a democracy but just like a picture of you looks like you it is not you it is just an image of you. Just because you believe the indoctrination of the government saying it is a democracy does not make it a democracy. " 2. I'll have to reiterate my previous analysis here, as you don't seem to be able to counter with anything other than "I am being indoctrinated by Canada to believe that Canada isn't practicing democratic principles." The principles are there, as outlined in round 1: if Canada is not a democracy, then why does its national government contain identical mechanisms to democratic GB and the US? I need no Canadian parliamentary records to show me that the Canadian parliament is acting in accordance with the citizens of Canada who elected its members. Hence, Canadians for all intents and purposes are self-governing, even if they are, in title or ceremony alone, still a territory of GB. And, again, sovereignty is not a condition of democracy. Yes, in many cases, it has accompanied it. However, in the case of Canada, which is completely incomparable at this time to other colonial government situations, 100% official sovereignty has not been a prerequisite of a fair, democratic governing system. By all means, show me how the Crown is railroading Canada's government, when it clearly defers to it in all matters of self-governance (like the Governor General). "The people of Canada never had a choice of what kind of government it wanted , like the U.S. did. A colonial government can not one day be a colonial government and the same day be a sovereign democratic government just by saying so with no ratification by referendum by the people. You are arguing Canada is a democracy not that you have not been indoctrinated to believe so. You have to produce documents , not statements of what you believe to win your side. How was a democracy created in Afghanistan? How was one created in Canada? Canadian documents please, not comments." 3. I'm not a citizen of Canada. Until this moment, I had absolutely no contact with Canadian government propaganda, nor have I been immersed in Canadian culture. I can, however, do research on the current incarnations of the parliamentary system in Canada. This, of course, is what I did. My arguments aren't formulated via indoctrination, because there has been no time to indoctrinate me. That requires a bit more than half an hour of research. 4. One more time: sovereignty is not a prerequisite, even in your own definition of democracy. Only free citizens are required to rule said government, and empirically Canadians are free citizens. And, as stated before, every mechanism of the government, even Canada's interaction with the Crown, is directly related to the citizens' popular choices for officials (see my Governor General analysis). 5. I am arguing indoctrination. My argument, to clarify, is that Canadians who believe themselves to be living in a democracy are correct; they are not indoctrinated. They haven't been fooled into thinking they are free while big, bad England rules with an iron fist. I'm saying that, because both GB and Canada have democratically principled governing systems, Canada must have a democratic government. Hence, Canadians who believe this believe correctly, or at least with incredibly significant empirical and political foundation. 6. I am presenting documents; granted, they are not the Hansard records that you seem to be single-mindedly defining as everything that encompasses Canada's ability to self-govern, but they are documented, empirical governmental practices that both GB and Canada partake in. I am presenting both logical and empirical warrants for every claim I make. I'm not just launching "statements" at you. I expect you to respond to those warrants if you wish to win this debate, and not just claim I am conspiratorily involved in the great Canadian indoctrination scheme...