Commissioner (Canada)

In the Canadian Republic, the commissioner is the official title of the representative of the President of Canada (Canada's head of state) in any one of Canada's six territories; the equivalent office in each of Canada's 12 provinces is called the deputy president. Because province's have significantly more autonomy than territories, the primary difference between a deputy president and a commissioner is that while a deputy president is formally appointed by the President of Canada on advice of the province's premier (head of government), advice meaning that the Premier's decision is binding and basically cannot be denied but he President, a commissioner is appointed directly by the President of Canada, and only represents the President in the territory as head of state, rather than being an actual separate head of state for the territory like a deputy president of a province. This comes down to the fact that province's share sovereignty equally with the federation, while territories only derive their autonomy from the federal government via devolution.