Posted by Ian McKechnie on July 11, 2009, 10:53 pm, in reply to "Re: GG Website"
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I think the GG's office is looking backwards in our constitutional timeline. They had it right in '39:
"The Governor-General at the time, Lord Tweedsmuir, was a great admirer of Canada and an active promoter of developing Canadian pride and patriotism. As John Buchan, the well-known writer, he was the first non-peer to be appointed Governor-General of Canada. (He was granted a peerage by King George V shortly after his Vice-regal appointment in March, 1935). He knew the country well, having been a visitor in the 1920s and travelling widely since becoming Governor-General. He believed a Canadian's first loyalty should be to Canada and to Canada's King, not to the Empire. This opinion confronted the imperialist perspective that pervaded much of Canadian thinking at the time. The imperialists could not conceive of Canada as anything but subordinate to the Empire."
"When Their Majesties walked into their Canadian residence, the Statute of Westminster had assumed full reality: the King of Canada had come home."
The notion that the monarchy "isn't" Canadian are thus all pre-1939 concepts.
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Sites/LOP/Infoparl/english/issue.asp?param=130&art=820
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