The Monarchist 1.0
Defending the British Crown Commonwealth and the English-Speaking Peoples
[+] HONOURING OUR PATRON, SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL, VICTOR OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES
[+] HONOURING OUR QUEEN, ELIZABETH THE SECOND, ON THE 80TH YEAR OF HER BIRTH (1926 - 2006)
[+] HONOURING OUR KING, SAINT EDWARD THE CONFESSOR, ON THE 1000TH YEAR OF HIS BIRTH (1005 - 2005)
[+] HONOURING OUR HERO, LORD NELSON, ON THE BICENTENNIAL OF THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR (1805 - 2005)
[+] HONOURING OUR SONS, THE QUEEN'S COMMONWEALTH SOLDIERS KILLED IN THE 'WAR ON TERROR'
Chief Warrant Officer Robert Girouard, 46, Royal Canadian Regiment, Nov 27, 2006 (Afstan)
Staff Sergeant Sharron Elliott, 34, Intelligence Corps, Nov 12, 2006 (Iraq)
Private Jacob B. Kovco, 25, Royal Australian Regiment, April 21, 2006
[+] HONOURING OUR VETS ON THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VICTORIA CROSS (1856 - 2006)
Thursday, August 04, 2005
Canada's new Governor-General
I’ve always thought there was something unseemly about a system where a government leader is de facto permitted to appoint his superior. It doesn’t matter how you dress it up, there’s a puppet quality to any position that owes its standing to a lower authority. There’s absolutely no way I would be a monarchist today, if the Queen owed her position in any way to her Prime Minister. Such indignity begets no reverence.
Today’s political preference for GG illustrates this indignity just so, and the cynicism underpinning it. The Liberals stand a shot of being almost completely wiped out in Quebec due to their gross misconduct and fraudulent political activities in that province. Even on the cosmopolitan island of Montreal, they’re damaged goods. They’re desperate. They need to do something bold to shore up their falling fortunes. Enter Michaelle Jean, a youngish popular Montreal television host and francophone, born in Haiti in 1957, to warm the hearts of Montreal immigrants and to further the cause of federal Liberalism in Quebec. The GG represents the Crown alright. The Liberal Crown.
The Dominion Chairman of the Monarchist League of Canada announced the Prime Minister’s decision as a “fascinating” choice. That’s about right. I’m fascinated and intrigued because I have no idea what her opinion of the role is. Is she loyal, is she even a monarchist? Will she continue along the path set before her, and declare herself to be Canada’s “Head of State” in direct contravention of the country’s written constitution? Will she contribute to the creeping regicide of Elizabeth II, as I wrote her predecessor did here? We don’t know the answers to these questions. We don’t know who she is. It’s a fascinating choice.
But it’s also a cynical choice. The Dominion Chairman can’t say that because defending the Crown has degenerated into just another political activity, something to lobby for, just another interest in the vast multitude of other concerns of state advocacy groups. The Liberals would say I am the cynical one because no matter what they do, there will always be those who distrust their motives. But give me one good reason why I should trust their motives. The choice is filled with every possible deliberate political calculation imaginable: young, woman, immigrant, urban, media, francophone, visible minority, beautiful,…just the thought of some jackass in the PMO ticking off the various boxes, makes me a little, rather ill.
Let’s face it; the wrinkled old wise waspy man from Beaver Creek doesn’t have the slimmest chance in hell of making it in the New Canada. The Liberals hate them, and everything they stand for. They should know the feeling is more than mutual. As for Madame Jean, in the end, only she can prove that Her Excellency was an excellent choice. To that end, The Monarchist wishes her well.
POSTED BY: The Monarchist AT 5:08 p.m. | LINKS |
I’ve always thought there was something unseemly about a system where a government leader is de facto permitted to appoint his superior. It doesn’t matter how you dress it up, there’s a puppet quality to any position that owes its standing to a lower authority. There’s absolutely no way I would be a monarchist today, if the Queen owed her position in any way to her Prime Minister. Such indignity begets no reverence.Today’s political preference for GG illustrates this indignity just so, and the cynicism underpinning it. The Liberals stand a shot of being almost completely wiped out in Quebec due to their gross misconduct and fraudulent political activities in that province. Even on the cosmopolitan island of Montreal, they’re damaged goods. They’re desperate. They need to do something bold to shore up their falling fortunes. Enter Michaelle Jean, a youngish popular Montreal television host and francophone, born in Haiti in 1957, to warm the hearts of Montreal immigrants and to further the cause of federal Liberalism in Quebec. The GG represents the Crown alright. The Liberal Crown.
The Dominion Chairman of the Monarchist League of Canada announced the Prime Minister’s decision as a “fascinating” choice. That’s about right. I’m fascinated and intrigued because I have no idea what her opinion of the role is. Is she loyal, is she even a monarchist? Will she continue along the path set before her, and declare herself to be Canada’s “Head of State” in direct contravention of the country’s written constitution? Will she contribute to the creeping regicide of Elizabeth II, as I wrote her predecessor did here? We don’t know the answers to these questions. We don’t know who she is. It’s a fascinating choice.
But it’s also a cynical choice. The Dominion Chairman can’t say that because defending the Crown has degenerated into just another political activity, something to lobby for, just another interest in the vast multitude of other concerns of state advocacy groups. The Liberals would say I am the cynical one because no matter what they do, there will always be those who distrust their motives. But give me one good reason why I should trust their motives. The choice is filled with every possible deliberate political calculation imaginable: young, woman, immigrant, urban, media, francophone, visible minority, beautiful,…just the thought of some jackass in the PMO ticking off the various boxes, makes me a little, rather ill.
Let’s face it; the wrinkled old wise waspy man from Beaver Creek doesn’t have the slimmest chance in hell of making it in the New Canada. The Liberals hate them, and everything they stand for. They should know the feeling is more than mutual. As for Madame Jean, in the end, only she can prove that Her Excellency was an excellent choice. To that end, The Monarchist wishes her well.
POSTED BY: The Monarchist AT 5:08 p.m. | LINKS |
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