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Thursday, September 21, 2006
Messing with loyalty

Loyalty to Queen is good enough, Mr. Brodbeck. Her Majesty is the constitutional embodiment of our country. She is the personification of the people and the humanisation of the state. We don't need to add an extra layer of abstraction onto this fact. Introducing a mistaken and misleading concept of dual allegiance, when loyalty to "King and Country" is a singular longstanding notion, is deliberately divisive, confusing, perhaps even mischievious.

A prudent person must assume that this is nothing more than a hidden agenda to disassemble the monarchy through a clever two step process: add a reduntant concept of national allegiance to sovereign allegiance, then remove the sovereign. We can already predict the return of the Tom Brodbecks before the ink is even dry on the legislation, calling for an end to the silly notion of dual loyalty. How can we be loyal to the "Queen of England" and to Canada, they will persist. Surely we should grow up and recognize that loyalty to Canada is all that matters. So nice try, Mr. Brodbeck - needless to say, I oppose it wholeheartedly.

Postscript: We must keep in mind of course that traditional loyalty and patriotism are alien concepts to most people nowadays. Nice in theory, but in reality unpracticed and irrelevant to scores of rootless, non-aligned cosmopolitan multiculturalists. The issue is not Queen or Country, because much of today's internationalist urbanites are not loyal to either. Sure they are attached as residents here, but only because we tolerate the holding of multiple passports; because we are a fabulous multinational hotel with great room service. Maybe that's another reason why we shouldn't engage in loyalty experiments. Perhaps we are so far gone, the whole thing just might unravel.

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