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| Our Lady & The Christ Child Tintern Abbey |
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| A CANADIAN LAMENT by David Warren 'In my lifetime I have seen the “re-branding” of my country, and with it, inevitably, the rewriting of our history to accommodate many lies. The project began officially with Lester Pearson’s new flag, in 1964 -- that ad-agency 'red maple', doubling as the emblem of the Liberal Party. Under Trudeau we saw this red maple used as a kind of rubber to erase the old heraldry; and almost every other symbol of Crown-in-Parliament followed into disuse. The proud word, “Dominion,” was among the noble artefacts put out with the trash in annus horribilis, 1982. By such acts -- including, more substantially, the rewriting of our laws -- our governments and our "gliberal" governing class have made it impossible for the patriot of the old order to be a patriot of the new. And the very freedoms we inherited as Canadians now fall, successively, before the State’s new “human rights” inquisitors, as we face an ignominious future.' David Warren |
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| Not just faith, but also history by David Warren |
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| What would Wilberforce do? 'Victor Victorians: A lesson in real morality.' |
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| A Mountie, in the company of his sled dogs, hoists the flag in the Canadian Arctic, in 1955 |
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| 'This noble and elegant site is both a tribute to a family's history, and to a national heritage.' --Daniel J. Cassidy Sunlit Uplands |
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| ‘Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them’ Sir Winston Churchill |
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| Honour all men. Love the Brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the King. (1Peter 2) |
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| The de facto Sovereign over Canada opens the Canadian Parliament . |
| THE STATE OF HER HEAD |
| How did Michaelle Jean, Canada's current Governor-General, go from this: 'As the representative of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, I am honoured to welcome the newly elected members of the House of Commons on the occasion of the opening of the First Session of the Thirty-Ninth Parliament of Canada. Canadians rejoice in the coming eightieth birthday of Her Majesty later this month, and in her more than fifty years of service as Queen of Canada.' (Speech from the Throne, 6 April 2006) to this: '...in our political system, there's a prime minister who has the executive power, and there's a governor general who is the titular head of state of the country - so some would say the de facto head of state. And as governor general, I represent the Canadian people. I'm some kind of a moral authority. I'm also the commander-in-chief of Canada and of the Canadian Forces.' (Interview with National Public Radio, 2nd April 2009) Lest anyone think otherwise because of Michaelle Jean's recent assertions in declaring herself Canada's 'Head of State', Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, the monarch who appointed Ms. Jean to the office of Governor-General, is neither dead nor deposed. She remains Sovereign, the undoubted Queen of Canada and has been so since taking her Coronation Oath in 1953. Canada remains, along with the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and other of the Queen's realms and territories, a Constitutional Monarchy. Elizabeth the Second, her heirs and successors are firmly placed by law at the 'head' of all her states. Indeed, the Monarchy itself is very deeply entrenched within the Canadian Constitution Act, 1982; so much so that, in order for Ms. Jean's and her officials fantasies of being the 'titular and de facto head of state' to come true, would require the abolition of the Monarchy by unanimous consent of Parliament and the legislatures of the Provinces; a political can of worms that no politician or government is likely to open. There's the rub. Democracy is getting in the way of the abolitionist gang. This 'de facto' business is an invention that denies the objective reality of the Sovereign who is 'de jure' and 'de facto' our undoubted Queen and upon whom the Crown rests. Indeed, in our system of governance, the Sovereign who wears the Crown is not only the 'Head' of the state, she or he IS the state. This is anti-democratic political activity on the part of Government House and the kind of thing that undermines both the office and person of the Governor-General whose duty is to refrain from politics. It is 'political' because they are advocating a view of the monarchy, the Queen and of the Queen's Sovereignty that runs counter to public policy as established within the Canadian Constitution and that can only be properly challenged by political will. The illegitamate use of the term 'de facto' is to mischieviously obscure or even nullify the person who 'de facto' wears the Crown and thus advance a perception that the monarchy is an 'office' such as that of Governor-General or other like government position. It is an absurd contradiction. Without the Sovereign, the person, there can be no Governor-General; neither would there have been a Confederation in 1867. The 'Crown' is not a mere 'state of mind'. Adrienne Clarkson, Ms. Jean's predecessor, with the tacit approval of the previous Liberal government, was a repeat 'head of state' offender. The other term Government House uses to justify it's anti-monarchism is that of 'evolution'. Whilst this can and does apply to the increased (and potentially reversed) responsibilities 'in locum' for the Governor-General, it cannot in any way be interpreted as the Darwinian evolution of the Sovereign herself. Duties come and go, as do Governors-General, but a Sovereign (and there can be only one) remains. We have in Canada, it would seem obvious, some staff at Government House who are ironically influenced and driven by politically motivated anti-monarchists. They are embarrassing our country and bringing disrepute to the Governor-General and her office. They are pretending that she replaces the Queen and hope that no one will notice or care. When advised by the Prime Minister that no, the Governor-General of Canada is not Head of State but represents the Queen who is, the impertinent Rideau Hall staff attempted to argue back by referring to the Letters Patent of King George VI, 1947, wherein the King authorised 'Our Governor General...to excercise powers and authorities belonging to Us (Section 2). His Majesty did not say that those powers and authority henceforth belong to the Governor-General whomever that should be, rather that the Sovereign delegates those powers so that the Governor-General can, by law, exercise them on His Majesty's behalf. The King did not abolish himself and the Governor-General, though she obviously has a head, does not have St. Edward's crown to put on it as Queen Elizabeth's head has done, lawfully, since the date of her coronation. The letters patent are obviously not the transfer of that Crown. Unlike the Great Seal of Canada, it is not even in the temporary custody of those appointed who, from time to time, on the advice of the Prime Minister, take up the office of Governor-General. My commissioning some years ago as an officer in the Armed Forces states that the commission is given by 'Elizabeth the Second' appointing me an officer in 'Her Majesty's Canadian Armed Forces', witnessed by 'our Governor-General' at 'our Government House' whose signature is at the bottom along with that of the Minister of National Defence. The then Governor-General was carrying out her responsibilities on behalf of the Queen, not in place of the Queen. The Governors-General are, during their tenure, Commanders-in-Chief of the armed forces but they are not the Governor-General's forces and she commands only at the Queen's pleasure. The message communicated by the Government House of late is unfaithful and could be interpreted without much doubt as disloyal to the Queen; not to mention that the whole business, the Governor-General's website and arrogant defiance is rude to the Queen personally. This unnecessary nonsense is especially disappointing because Ms. Jean has proved to be a most worthy occupant of the office in so many refreshingly attractive ways.I doubt very much that she, herself, has directed the staff to project herself as 'head of state'. She obviously was made convinced that this was accepted public policy because of the sad self-aggrandising behaviour of her predecessor. and as the staff at Rideau Hall were removing paintings and photographs of the Royal Family from the residence and website. It would appear that the Prime Minister and the government have reined in these people and have sought to restore an accurate and respectful advocacy for the Monarchy in Canada as well as that of the Queen's representative. The Palace simply underscored the obvious. There have been, for decades, those who wish to abolish the monarchy in Canada and elsewhere. In a free and democratic society such views are fair and have had no limits placed on them. On the other hand, until such time, if ever, the Monarchy is abolished and replaced by some other system of government, it is the duty of all citizens to be faithful and loyal to the Sovereign of the country as it is not as they pretend it be. This is especially the responsibility of those to whom the Queen has appointed to serve in Her Majesty's name from Governor-General to Officer to Judge to Police Constable. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN. |
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