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Only indirectly. The Governor General did the firing of the entire cabinet. He represented the queen nevertheless, and it shows how the system has a function even without the said queen giving a damn. And that's not counting the fundamental role of monarchy as the national rallying point. It's often underestimated how effective of a cushion it is in the face of possible political crises. In the end, people need something "pure" to look up when there's nothing else, and nothing beats the effectiveness and adaptability of a long-established (non-temporal) monarchy in this regard.
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