[r7000]

Are the UK and Canada republics or democracies?

[jamie_ca]

They're both, as is the US. They aren't pure democracies, though.

http://www.diffen.com/difference/Democracy_vs_Republic

[r7000]

The UK and Canada are not republics. There's no need to clarify "pure democracy"as no one thinks any modern democratic country is a pure democracy. All modern democracies are representative democracies.

Since there is, more or less, no other type of democracy around when a colloquial English speaker says "democracy" they mean representative democracy. Everything else is a pointless annoying semantic game.

Representative democracy is a perfectly acceptable term. Trying to shoehorn monarchies into the term "republic" is absurd.

[confounded]

No. The UK and Canada are monarchies, not republics.