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icon7.gif Canada...doing well after all these years.  [message #62832] Fri, 02 July 2010 14:13 Go to previous message
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Brody's Notes and Scribbles Blog has an interesting little article about Canada celebrating its 143rd birthday with the Queen in attendance. From all the hoopla it seems our northern neighbors like her a lot better than her homeland.

The royal news we get about England, other than the tabloids which decry the royal family (No, Harry is not gay, wishful thinking), calling them a drain on the national purse, royal play actors with little purpose.

I know you English are all into that pomp and circumstance so I guess you plan to keep paying for it even if the economy is bad. Queen and all make for a good tourist attraction and there is all that tradition to uphold.

Canada has a proper view of the monarchy probably because it is distant. I don't think the Irish have the same view, they weren't treated the same way. I think the Americans would side with the Irish since many of them came here to get away from all that royal attention.

Unlike Canada we lost respect for the English crown, although I doubt if the Irish ever had any. I cringe at the word Commonwealth, at least as applied by the English. The American colonies had a good dose of that commonwealth, it lined the pockets of English merchants for decades. Unfortunately the Irish didn't have the same opportunity to remove the English crown as the Americans.

So the point here is that Canada may give a nod to the Queen, but lots of them are French at heart, I don't have to remind anyone of that old annimosity. If you're going to play into royal hands then it's good to keep them at arms length with an ocean in between.

Happy Independence Day America ;-D


Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. (Sir Francis Bacon 1561-1626)
 
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