Posted by Ian McKechnie on September 17, 2009, 7:44 am, in reply to "Re: The "Country" and The Flag"
Message modified by board administrator September 17, 2009, 7:46 am
But, if the latter question were put up as a philosophical concept; should not Canadians rejoice and celebrate the idea that our head of state crosses racial, social, cultural, and political borders/divisions?
The great wars of history often began with the sharp-tongued word "MINE!" The fact that our head of state is simultaeneously sovereign of sixteen nations seems to symbolise the open, all-encompassing nature of the Crown.
To use an example, if one (the Queen) has a home in the city and a cottage somewhere else, does that mean the cottage (Canada, in this case) is somehow lesser than the home in the city (U.K.)? I don't think so.
What republicans likewise fail to answer, too, is this question: what if one is a Canadian citizen but also has permanent residence in the USA, New Zealand, Germany, etc? Would they somehow be less of a "Canadian" (whatever that word means)?
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