the Canadian head of state is still technically the Queen!

I was reminded of this when I managed to decipher "GR" on the jackets of Canadian law enforcement officers. My high school french suggested that it was probably something like "gendarmerie royaume", aka RCMP. Here in NZ we have the anachronistic R in front of several government organisations as well. For those who read(past tense) adolescent detective novels, the Queen's representative here has the surname Hardie-Boyes (I kid you not)