WHO IN HIS RIGHT MIND WOULD WANT TO BE THE SUBJECT OF A QUEEN?

 

You think you're a Canadian citizen? Think again. The truth is you're wrong and you're deluding yourself. The truth is, you can't be a citizen, simply because you're already (and merely) the subject of the British Royal Family.

The truth shall set you free, said some people. They're quite right.

Canada is not a confederation, and it does not really belong to the population living in the vast territory that form a triangle between the island of Vancouver, to the west, the island of Newfoundland, to the east, and  and Umingmak Nuna (Ellesmere Island), to the north. The fact that it is a country is even debatable, since the head of the kingdom of Canada is also the head of the Kingdom of Australia, and also the head of state of the Kingdom of New-Zealand, while also serving as the head of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Leaving aside the doubtful territorial integrity of the last entity, the fact remain that the said head of state of the four kingdoms is simply the head of state of the old British Empire, that undying, unkillable, I-refuse-to-die beast. Will that roaring lion ever turn silent and let go of us?

The British Empire is still alive and well, whatever the name you want to give it. It exist and it is here. We're stuck with it.

It is because it is real that we still talk about the Crown Lands' (les terres de la Couronne), that we still use the expression Crown Attorney (avocat de la Couronne), etc. Canada IS NOT really a country but the possession of the Crown, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise, because if someone tries to tell you otherwise, it means he intends to lie to you, reader, wherever you are. The simple truth is that Canada is a object that exist in the head of a charming old lady that lives in London, alongside the Thames, on the other side of the Atlantic. She's the center of the British Universe and we're all her subjects.

Think about it. The leader of this 'country' lives in a foreign land. She owns us. She owns everything and everyone in this land. That possession survives by passing from one generation to another, inside the Royal Family, and given the age of the lady in question, we can't be very far from a change of owner.

It must be said that it made some sense in the period of time when most of the population was from the British Islands. That period started after the arrival of the First Nations, the arrival of the French population, and the subjugation and capture of both of them in the XVIIIth century, when the British barged their way in. But now?

Canada is a people living inside an obsolete idea. It is a modern population wearing clothes that dates back from the Middle-Ages. It is a patchwork of, families and nations stuck in an outdated 'country' that is not really a country and that don't even dare show its true (monarchical) nature. When is the last time you heard a representative of the government of Canada using the word 'kingdom' to describe this land? Did you notice that they much prefer to call it a 'confederation', even though it isn't, and it really, really is a kingdom.

Let's call a cat a cat, and a dog a dog.

Canada does not belong to us, to any of us, not even to the Prime Minister. It belong to a foreign Queen. The only way out of this predicament is for us to become citizens, is for us to create a republic, is for us to become something greater than ourselves: the Republic of Canada / la république du Canada. We must be bold in that endeavour. That is what we need to become, politically, if we ever want to live in a place that WE OWN, not in a place where we ARE OWNED.

A Canadian Republic will have, as citizens, the very first inhabitants of this land, meaning the First Nations, but also les Franco-Canadiens, the Anglo-Canadians (it must be said that the Anglo-Ontarians essentially runs the show, as of now), and also all the many immigrants that have come here through the ages, and still continues to come.

Those who are really attached to the British Monarchy are a diminishing breed in this land. The period of British domination that started in 1759 and became undeniable in 1867, is about to end soon. With the low birth-rates that prevails in Canada, and with the waves of immigration that, in the last decades, have reaches these shores, the monarchical crowd is getting smaller and smaller. The day will come, eventually, where it will become so small that the tide will be able to turn and the British Monarchy will become a thing of the past, where it belongs and where it should remain.

It will probably happen, one day, since the land of minus 40 degrees is also the land of the Quiet Revolutions, and the land where great things happens through the efforts of ordinary, peaceful people, discreetly, without hardly anyone noticing...

 

Long Live the Canadian Republic!

Vive la République autonome du Québec!

 

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