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"Our ties to monarchy are bigger than the royals"

http://www.calgaryherald.com/entertainment/ties+monarchy+bigger+than+royals/2152389/story.html#

"Poll finds Canada disenchanted with royals: report"

"The CBC reported that the poll conducted by the Navigator polling firm found some 80 percent of Canadians believe that the monarchy is out of step with the times, although they feel that the royal family has had an important place in their nation's history.

More than 60 percent of respondents feel as well that Canada's constitutional monarchy is outdated, the CBC reported."

Let me put it bluntly. If this poll is correct, and sixty percent of Canadians feel the Monarchy is outdated, and if, to further the assumption, that at any time in my lifetime Canada decides to remove the Monarchy from our system, you can expect to see me on the first flight out of Canada. I would not wish to live anywhere near at all such a despicable country as it would be.

Canada as it is is sick morally, culturally, and in many other ways, and to force me to renounce Her Majesty, the Queen, would be the final straw which I could not, and would not, accept.

First they remove our British Citizenship so I cannot easily serve Her Majesty in any of her realms but this one, they ditch years of history, of tested and true methods, of a strong moral code, of a justice system that was the best in the world, and then remove the Monarchy from Canadian life, it would truly be one of the lowest, most despised nations on earth, and even my love for it's history could not overcome the sense of revulsion I have at merely considering the possibility that Canada would do something as horrible as this.

I do not apologise for my sentiments, and I honestly view anyone who seriously proposes anything of this sort as an 'improvement' as a raving lunatic. I am aghast that anyone calling themselves a patriotic Canadian could even let a thought of this sort go in one ear, much less declare they believe it desirable, good, or in any other way something Canadians should choose.

For All We Have and Are

For all we have and are,
For all our children's fate,
Stand up and meet the war.
The Hun is at the gate!
Our world has passed away
In wantonness o'erthrown.
There is nothing left to-day
But steel and fire and stone.

Though all we knew depart,
The old commandments stand:
"In courage keep your heart,
In strength lift up your hand."

Once more we hear the word
That sickened earth of old:
"No law except the sword
Unsheathed and uncontrolled,"
Once more it knits mankind,
Once more the nations go
To meet and break and bind
A crazed and driven foe.

Comfort, content, delight --
The ages' slow-bought gain --
They shrivelled in a night,
Only ourselves remain
To face the naked days
In silent fortitude,
Through perils and dismays
Renewd and re-renewed.

Though all we made depart,
The old commandments stand:
"In patience keep your heart,
In strength lift up your hand."

No easy hopes or lies
Shall bring us to our goal,
But iron sacrifice
Of body, will, and soul.
There is but one task for all --
For each one life to give.
Who stands if freedom fall?
Who dies if England live?

--Rudyard Kipling, For All We Have and Are.

Where has our sense of duty gone?

Most Canadians oppose military role in Afghanistan

The results of these polls, if taken seriously, are quite distressing; since when has soldiers deployed to foreign fields, soldiers of free countries, supporting their own citizens freedom while at the same time spreading the same freedom, been a bad thing?
Perhaps our soldiers are getting tired, but this is not their fault, they have exerted tremendous energy doing their jobs and they cannot be blamed for the neglect they had received in the decades before this mission.
But even that is not a reason we should oppose them being present in Afghanistan, merely a reason we need to support them better and give them some more rest.

The saying 'No man is an island' could easily be applicable to almost any state on this globe, we a duty to our citizens and to our allies. The freedoms we enjoy in Canada, the same ones I might mention we are giving up so easily, did not just miraculously appear out of nowhere. It took the blood, sweat, and lives of many Britons and Canadians to achieve, and this we should not forget so quickly.
If these heroes offer to die for our sake, for the sake of our children and our children's children, should we refuse them that? Should we spare any effort to give them the best equipment and training so they can perhaps, even as they offer their lives as a sacrifice, live to see another sunrise and cherish what is undoubtedly something much more meaningful than it was before?