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Originally Posted by muttonglutton
Call me ignorant and hateful...
But why do people still care about this?
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Why wouldn't people care about it? with the weight of history, tradition, institutionalism, power, wealth, history. Did i say history? well, what about precedence. Just about every law we have is based on English precedence.
We care because it shows where our nation evolved from. Even if we don't support the institution of monarchy in this day and age* ignoring it is cultural and historical myopia.
I think there is so much more to say on both sides of the "This", but in the end, why deny where we started from?
* I have a bone to pick about the monarchy. We maintain a set of representatives of the head of state in our country. The Governor General (nationally) plus Leiutenant-Governors (provincially). We are always moaning and griping at the cost of maintaining these offices. My question is, if this continues merely to havethe Queeen's representative maintained in Canada, why isn't Buckingham Palace paying the shot????