King Charles III is not my king

My neighbour Brian shocked me just a few days in the past when he stated he had at all times considered himself as a monarchist and a giant supporter of the British Royal Household.

“However I now understand I used to be actually only a fan of Elizabeth,” he stated, referring to the late queen who died final September. “She epitomized obligation and grew into her function with grace and dignity.”

As for King Charles III, whose title will probably be formalized in an over-the-top coronation ceremony in just every week’s time in London, the one factor Brian would say was coolly blunt: “I don’t have a view of him aside from he’s Elizabeth’s son.”

Like my neighbour, I maintain no sick will in the direction of Charles and need one of the best for the Royal Household and its typically disfunctional members.

However Charles isn’t my king (I do know, I do know, technically he’s the King of Canada) and his coronation drives dwelling but once more to me the conclusion that it’s inevitable that Canada will break from the British monarchy.

I’m not alone in feeling this fashion. In reality, a ballot earlier this week signifies that increasingly Canadians oppose having Charles declared King of Canada and being our head of state. And most of us don’t need to swear an oath to King Charles, don’t need to sing “God Save the King” and don’t need to see Charles on our $20 payments or $2 cash.

On the similar time, barely 9 per cent of Canadians surveyed are actually wanting ahead to the coronation of Charles. Gee, even within the U.Ok. lower than 10 per cent say they’re very within the coronation.

Regardless of these pathetically low numbers, our nationwide TV networks CTV, the CBC and International are planning hours and hours of breathless commentary and flag-waving protection from London that may greatest be described as fawning over anachronistic symbols of privilege and inherited wealth.

Whereas I’m attempting to keep away from the media onslaught about Charles and the monarchy that’s about to be unleashed on all of us, I’ll console myself with the information that solely 27 per cent of Canadians need Canada to stay a constitutional monarchy for years to come back. That quantity was surprisingly constant throughout your complete nation.

Shachi Kurl, president of the Angus Reid Institute, informed Toronto Star reporter Joshua Chong earlier this week that “altering demographics have led us to a spot the place persons are this establishment and both are form of shrugging their shoulders and going, ‘What’s the purpose of this?’ or much more firmly saying, ‘Why are we persevering with to profess ties to an establishment that more and more has little or no to do with fashionable Canadian society?’”

The reality is the monarchy is completely irrelevant at present, an totally ineffective establishment that’s nothing greater than a continuous cleaning soap opera — from Harry and Megan to Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein.

So, please Justin Trudeau, don’t declare a nationwide vacation because the tiny, however vocal gang of monarchists are demanding you do to honour Charles. And thanks Ottawa for retaining coronation day celebrations on Parliament Hill to a minimal.

With the coronation, it’s now time to suppose severely about lastly chopping our ties with the British monarchy. It may be executed with the approval of the Home of Commons, the Senate and all 10 provincial legislatures.

Whereas some teachers insist it might be too arduous to do, the Angus Reid ballot reveals greater than half of the respondents in each area of Canada favour severing relations. Why not maintain a nationwide referendum? If the outcomes are the identical because the ballot it might be simply conceivable that Ottawa and each province would do what the folks need and dump the monarchy.

Till then, I hope to get my palms on one in all Britain’s hottest-selling coronation memento gadgets: a yellow T-shirt that reads “Not My King.”

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