"Ultimately, whatever Charles may do or say should not matter to Canada. Becoming a republic would be the last step in our political evolution as we detach ourselves from Britain. It has been our story for decades: The Canada Corps in the Great War, the Statute of Westminster, the Citizenship Act, making the Supreme Court of Canada supreme, the Maple Leaf flag, the national anthem, the Order of Canada – and, most important, the patriation of the British North America Act, which freed us from British trusteeship while entrenching a Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
All were declarations of independence. All were about shedding our neocolonialism. All were about seeing ourselves not as a young, small democracy, but as an old and big one in both size and stature, a true example to the world. It’s about confidence.
Mark Carney, dusted by destiny, asks us to think big about our unfinished country. And we can – beginning by making this royal visit the last, and saying adieu to the monarchy with a sigh, a shrug and a wave."
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