Yes, ma'am they are indifferent:
Even with a posh royal wedding in the works, most Canadians aren't mad about the monarchy.
An exclusive Leger Marketing poll for QMI Agency reveals more than half of Canadians couldn't care less about the royals - including 26% who would like a divorce from the British monarchy. The survey finds females more likely than males to swoon over the royals, with just 19% of women calling for cut ties compared to 30% of men.
Leger VP Dave Scholz said the numbers reflect a waning sense of relevancy among a deeply divided public when it comes to the monarchy.
It's not so much that the monarchy is irrelevant, it's that Canadians know nothing about it. Canadian students are taught the wonders of multiculturalism, bilingualism and the obscure customs of very obscure tribes, but practically nothing about their head of state.
The Jacobins who have been running Canada since the 1960s reasoned, correctly it seems, that trying to directly challenging traditional Canadian institutions (like the monarchy) would backfire. Australian Republicans tried for decades to hold a referendum on the monarchy, only to lose it. Their Canadian counterparts are far more subtle.
Stop teaching children about the monarchy, the common law and the principles that under grid our parliamentary system, and as adults they will never think to consider these institutions "relevant." It's a slow motion cultural coup that has gone, mostly, unnoticed for two generations.
Same old tired, biased questions; always asking Canadians about "ties" (implying unwanted constrictions) to the "British" monarchy (implying foreign institution). Add to that the fact that most Canadians have no idea what purpose the monarchy serves ("Why, the prime minister is head of state! We don't need a useless queen.) and what results can one expect?
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, multiculturalism has its positive outcome. In telling children how wonderful everybody's culture is, yet neglecting our own, it has left a generation of cultural orphans, left to contemplate their own origins as they sing dirges in Swahili for Kwanzaa. These cultural orphans are looking for their own roots, and sooner or later, will find them.
ReplyDeleteIn Australia every ''Australia Day'' ( the day we were first settled by Captain Arthur Phillip and the convicts) we have in Sydney harbour, a guy dressed up as him come in on a boat and raise a Union Jack! I can only imagine how infuriating this must be for pro republicans.
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