Posted by Ian McKechnie on May 2, 2012, 10:16 pm, in reply to "Re: Charles & Camilla's Canadian itinerary/backgrounder "
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The compartively short length of the tour may have to do with cost-cutting measures (I would imagine that many Canadians - not least Opposition MPs - would be angered by the announcement of a lavish tour when the government is making cuts to things like the CBC, national parks, and so forth). Then again, the Queen's Silver Jubilee tour of Canada was only five days in length (a day longer than Charles' visit, if one counts the day of HRH arrival, on May 20th), and it was limited to Ottawa. Having said all of that, it's still a little short, and it's a little unfortunate that while this tour includes major urban areas (as have the past three royal tours organised by the Conservative government), smaller communities are being overlooked; Owen Sound and Cornwall apparently requested the presence of TRH, but were denied. Back in the royal-tour heyday of the seventies and eighties, smaller communities were often in the royal spotlight alongside the perennial "favourites:" Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver, and so on.
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