Time for Canada, finally, to talk about becoming a republic.
We owe it to ourselves.
ANDREW COHEN
SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL, Sept. 16, 2022
Andrew Cohen is a journalist, a professor at Carleton University and author of The Unfinished Canadian: The People We Are.
The response among the chattering class to the death of Queen Elizabeth has been warm, measured and correct, much like the late Queen herself. Now is no time to speak ill of the monarch – nor, apparently, of the monarchy itself.
In English Canada, royalists flood the zone. Their lapidary tributes are soaked in sentimentality. [Read the full article at the Globe and Mail]