Lord Norton, a political scientist who is a member of the British House of Lords, has written in Lords of the Blog about a subject I addressed here. That subject is the decision by the governor general of Canada, to grant Prime Minister Stephen Harper's request to suspend Parliament until late January, thereby postponing a no-confidence vote that Harper's Conservative minority government was expected to lose.
Queen Elizabeth II is recognized as "Queen of Canada". However, Norton points out that the governor general is empowered to act as head of state in matters such as these.
Others have raised the question of whether Buckingham Palace might possibly get involved in handling Canada's constitutional crisis. There seems to be a consensus that there is no constitutional way for the Queen to overrule the governor general.
But, aside from that, my guess is that, purely for political reasons, the Queen would be extremely reluctant to involve herself in the Canadian situation.
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