Once again this business of swearing an oath to the monarch has popped up in Parliament. It’s one of those issues that never dies but never works up quite enough interest or emotion to generate change. In order to participate in the business of the House of Commons, i.e. in
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Writings of J. Todd Ring: Abolish The Monarchy?
Abolish the monarchy? A better idea, since it is actually achievable within the relatively near term, is to create a new British constitution, which clearly enshrines – and re-asserts – human rights and freedoms, while precisely detailing the powers and strict limits of political or governmental powers, as well as
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: The Price of Dispensing With The Monarchy
Over on Musk’s Xitter site, I spotted the following post basically arguing that we should dispense with the Monarchy in Canada. Let me start off by saying that I’m sympathetic to this position in general. The Monarchy is at best an anachronism, and frankly the Royal Family has been more
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Off with his head!
Canadians, it seems, are not particularly enamoured of Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor. According to an Angus Reid survey, 60 percent of us do not want Charles III as head of state and over half no longer want their country to continue as a constitutional monarchy at all. They don’t
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: The end of monarchy?
So the Queen is 96. A good age. Happy birthday, Your Majesty. Her birthday once again prompts the usual question. Do we want to continue with the monarchy? Or is it time to move on from an archaic institution? According to an Angus Reid survey, the answer is yes we
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: Does Canada Need a Head of State
From Twitter Adrian Harewood @CBCAdrianH 23 Jan Why in 2021 is a Canadian Prime Minister, the leader of a #G7 nation, still reporting to a #Queen who doesn’t live in his country and has never lived in his country? #JuliePayette #JustinTrudeau
Continue readingIs the U.S. Returning to Its Imperial Roots?
In 1776, the United States declared its independence of Great Britain. The Americans had had their fill of aristocracy and monarchy. Once they had defeated the British, they wrote a constitution that would establish and constrain the federal government. The head of state, for example, now a president rather than
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: A Royal Wedding, Or A Royal Life, And A Royal World?
Some find a royal wedding moving and beautiful. But I disagree. Beautiful would be taking the vast fortune of the “royal” family of England and sharing it with the five billion people on Earth living in poverty, one billion of whom live in extreme poverty. Until that happens, the beautiful
Continue readingThe Tory Pirate - Politics & Policy: Progressivism & Monarchy
(Originally posted to The Maple Monarchists on November 28th) It is not a secret that, as a general rule, conservatives seem to support monarchy more thanprogressives. While it is true that conservative support for tradition and established authoritymake support for monarchy quite natural what aspect of monarchy makes it such anincomparable ideal for progressives?This question has played in the back of my mind for a while now. I ponder it a […]
Continue readingThe Tory Pirate - Politics & Policy: Random Thoughts: Directly-Elected Executives Vs. Legislatures?
The US Senate in all its impotent glory. While commenting on one of Warren Kinsella’s older articles(comment has not appeared as of this writing due either toconnection failure or queuing) I pointed out that when acountry has a directly-elected executive the executive tends towin in any disputes it has with the
Continue readingThe Tory Pirate - Politics & Policy: The NDP "is not planning any changes to our current form of the parliamentary system"
It is not often I get to talk about issues related to the monarchy on this blog. I mostly keep that on the other blog I writefor. However the Monarchist League of Canada recently surveyed the main federal parties on their views towards theCanadian Monarchy. One of the answers was
Continue readingWhat keeps Canada together?
The above is the title of a survey commissioned by the Association for Canadian Studies and carried out by Leger Marketing earlier this year. The answer to what unites the country, from the 1,509 Canadians included in the survey, was clear. Of the 11 possibilities offered, the top two choices
Continue readingTrashy's World: Unconfirmed reports from unnamed sources…
… indicate that the newest royal attention seeker has been born and he shall be named Heir-a-born, son of Aragorn, son of Arathorn. Gimli, son of Gloín is appointed the Royal diaper washer while Gollum will act as his nanny. Joe Oliver is apparently jetting across the Atlantic as I
Continue readingTrashy's World: Cletus, Jethro, Beula and Slim…
… would all be great names for the yet-to-be-born latest British royal anachronism! I listened with disgust this morning as some zombie from the monarchist league of Canada (yes, they’re still around and huffing and puffing their “I love da Queen!” royal crap) was being interviewed on Ottawa morning. He
Continue readingPolygonic: Of babies and bathwater: how Harper might be undermining the monarchy
The Constitution? Unborn Queens? Fascinating stuff (do not insert a “said no one, ever” after that please). The scene unfolds thusly: Parliament recently approved a gender equity bill as regards which unelected English aristocrat may reign over us (such progressive times in which we live), that met little controversy or
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: America, Canada’s Monarchy
The Queen is unelected by Canadians, is ultimately responsible for Canada’s well-being, and exerts no influence over Canadian affairs. The President of the United States is unelected by Canadians, has no responsibility for Canada’s well-being, and exer…
Continue readingTrashy's World: I cannot believe that Britons…
… or Canadians, for that matter, think that the chief royal inbred getting a raise like this is OK. Incredible. The nation is going through some really austere times, but does that matter to the royals? Apparently not. (6) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: Retiring the Monarchy
Alright, what longstanding Canadian institution shall we dispense with today? Queen Elizabeth II has been all over the news of late in honour of her Diamond Jubilee. Never satisfied, some of those rabble-rousing muckrakers in the NDP have refused to join in the festivities. That killjoy Pat Martin in particular,
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Majority Rule by the Few
The wasteful, unelected monarchy is bad and democracy is good. Since most Canadians don’t require a more indepth argument than that, let’s use the democratic system to finally severe Canada’s ties with the monarchy. Let’s get a majority of us together, in our democracy that will require about 38% of
Continue readingTrashy's World: Here they come again…
… the “royal” family, that is. Yup, time for the Harperites to once again waste some mega bucks – $1 million range – to host and fête members of Britain’s most famous inbreds. Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore defended the visit Monday in a conference call with reporters, saying the
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