Re: "Let's dump this outdated institution," Our View, Wednesday, Nov. 28.
I can't stand some reports on so-called "surveys."
Apparently,
a Montreal-based "Association for Canadian Studies" (possibly funded by
us taxpayers) claimed the majority of their phone canvassing resulted
in negative views on Canadians' interest in our ties with the English
monarchy.
Well, considering it was a Montreal-based survey, I
think it questionable. Could we have expected anything different? I'm
having a lot of questions on how Quebec is run, in light of past and
current legal and political "irregularities."
A vast number of
Quebecois continue to be disenchanted with anything, especially
"English," outside their desire for independence. Let's do an
Ontario-west survey, I say. Oh, by the way, how far afield did the
canvass actually take them?
The monarchy has had its many problems
with outrageous scandals, political and domestic, but what country,
regime or family unit hasn't?
Our society was founded on the basis
of Roman, Judeo-Christian ethic with the founding fathers of the
British Rule of Law and political governance that has been questioned
and criticized, but what other system is really that much better?
How
many other societies have experienced the characteristics of what we
have in the West and are not truly envious (inclusive of our English
ties) - journalistic freedoms, transparency, democratic freedom of
selection of government, Charter of Rights and Freedoms, etc.?
The monarchy is one form of the reflection of our society as to who we are and were and where we have come from as a nation.
Formally
cutting links with our past for what? We are currently on a disastrous
road financially, spiritually, fiscally and morally around the globe and
we desperately need leaders, for sure. Let's not forsake what we feel
is no longer important, when there are positive historical remnants of
our past that we can be still identified with.
God save our Queen and country!
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