Crown (Canada)

In the Canadian Republic, according to Canadian constitutional law, the Crown refers to the state in all its aspects. This stems from Canada's history as a constitutional monarchy under the House of Windsor and the British crown. Following Canada's transition to a republic in 1988, many monarchist relics in politics and especially national symbology were retained, albeit given a new republican interpretation.

For example, today in Canada, a minister of the Crown is the generic title for any minister leading an executive department or ministry of a provincial, territorial or the federal government, while Crown counsel refers to public prosecutors, individual prosecutors being normally referred to as Crown prosecutors. Visually, much of the official governmental symbology has retained the use of crowns, such as those topping police and military badges and coats of arms.