Edward (Ted) McWhinney is a Canadian academic specializing in constitutional and international law. He was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament from 1993 to 2000 for the electoral district of Vancouver Quadra. In 2005, he was written up in the press due to his book, The Governor General and the Prime Ministers in which he argued that Canada could become a republic "quietly and without fanfare by simply failing legally to proclaim any successor to the Queen in relation to Canada." [1].