Republic Now Survey Reveals Overwhelming Support for Reform of Canada’s Parliamentary Oath of Office 91% of Canadians Prefer Oath Reflecting Loyalty to Canada and Its Charter of Rights and Freedoms Toronto, ON — A new national survey commissioned by Republic Now, a non-partisan political advocacy organization calling for Canada to replace the British monarch with…
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Reasons To Have A Truly Canadian Head of State
No. 1: We are no longer a British colony. Canada is an independent country that deserves to have a Canadian citizen as its head of state, not a British colonial that live in a castle overseas. Iceland has an Icelandic head of state. Germany has a German head of state. Ireland has an Irish head…
Republic Now denounces installation of statue of Queen Elizabeth at Queen’s Park
Doug Ford spends $ 1,500,000 on statue of Queen Elizabeth, while most Ontarians want to turn the page on monarchy Republic Now, a non-partisan organization advocating for a democratically-selected, Canadian, head of state, vigorously denounces Doug Ford’s decision to spend 1.5 million hard-earned tax payer dollars to install a statue of Queen Elizabeth at Queen’s…
Re.: Canada should show more enthusiasm for King Charles’s coronation
Re.: Canada should show more enthusiasm for King Charles’s coronation, The Globe and Mail, Feb. 21, 2023 John Fraser’s opinion piece highlights points on which republicans and monarchists, apparently, agree. In regards to the upcoming coronation of Charles Windsor, in London, England, Fraser surmises, as do many republicans, that the federal government hasn’t shown enthusiasm…
What Quebec National Assembly got right
What Quebec National Assembly got right when it made traditional oath to British monarch optional SPECIAL FROM ASHOK CHARLES, TORONTO/THUNDER BAY. JANUARY 2, 2023. In its November 7, 2022 article, “The empty fight over a symbolic oath in Quebec,” the Globe and Mail’s editorial board argued that the ultimately legislated proposal for Quebec’s National Assembly to dispense…