Posted by K.M. Collins
on October 23, 2009, 8:38 pm
Message modified by board administrator October 23, 2009, 9:19 pm
Canada has always been a constitutional monarchy. New France was a monarchy and Canadian aboriginal people had, and still have, their hereditary chiefs. The concept of republicanism is alien to Canada. Romantic individualism of constitutional monarchies contrasts with dangerous and bland collectivist rationalism of republics. Constitutional monarchs contribute to apolitical authority, stability and continuity and are associated with excellence, duty and prestige. Canada also shares its monarch with other countries which, like Canada, are committed to individual rights.
The Australian Monarchist League sent the following poetry to my e-mail address. It was written by John Masefield OM, Poet Laureate from 1937 to 1967.
"What is the Crown but something set above
The jangle and jargon and the hate
Of strivers after power in the State,
A symbol, like a banner, for men's love?
When hope is dim and luck is out of joint,
When enemies within, without assail,
Where a Crown shines, the courage cannot fail,
There a land's spirit finds a rallying-point."
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