Canadian Monarchist News Les Nouvelles monarchiques du Canada Spring/printemps 2 016 — No. 37 An occasional Newsletter for members and friends of The Monarchist League of Canada Publications Mail Agreement No. 40030314 Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: The Monarchist League of Canada La Ligue Monarchiste du Canada, Publication Mail Poste-publications PO Box 105 7, Lakeshore West PO, Oakville, Ontario, Canada L6K 0B2 #40030314 905-855-7262 (800) 465-6925 www.monarchist.ca C.P.A. ST-LAURENT, QC. THE MONARCHI ST LEAG UE OF CANADA – 46th ANNIVER SAR Y 1970-201 6 TRUDEAU SWORN PRIME MINISTER: PALACE AUDIENCE WITH QUEEN TOASTS SOVEREIGN AT CHOG MEETING “Nice moments” “Gracious and insightful” “Selfless service” Warm relationship evident Report and reflections by Canis Vetus er receiving outgoing Prime Min - ister Stephen Harper, who formally Apresented his resignation, the Gov - ernor General swore Justin Trudeau as Canada’s 23rd Prime Minister, together e Prime Minister (above) toasts e Queen in with his Cabinet, at a November 4 cere - Malta. Her Majesty is amused! (below) mony in the Ballroom of Rideau Hall. PM: Your example of dedication and selfless Eager to take the monarchical measure service inspires...long and tireless service of the country’s new leader, loyalists had HM: ank you, Mr. Prime Minister of two statements to which they might refer. Canada, for making me feel so old! (See box p. 2). However, much more was to come from M. Trudeau in his early days as Prime Minister. A press release the first ursday of his Ministry announced that he would have an audience of e Queen in London en route to the CHOG meet - ings in Malta. “I am absolutely delighted that Her Majesty has graciously agreed to this meeting,” ran the statement. “As the Queen’s 12th Canadian prime minister, I am honoured and very much look for - ward to spending this time in conversa - tion with her. In her role as Queen of Canada, she has not only witnessed, but also been an active participant in, the evo - who in turn respected his intellect, energy lution of our country over the past 63 and courtesy. HM told the son “It is nice years. Her Majesty will remain an integral to see you again...under different circum - part of our country’s progress and future.” stances.” Justin Trudeau replied that, e positive tone of the statement was when they first met, e Queen had been evident. Nor was it lost to observers that much taller than he, to which the the PM had made a deliberate effort to Monarch replied “Well, isn’t it extraordi - add a stop in London to meet Canada’s nary to think of it!” Monarch when in fact he could earily e meeting proceeded as cameras have arranged to be received in Malta. were ushered out of the Audience cham - e November 25th meeting between ber. e Prime Minister aerwards re - Sovereign and Prime Minister, aer which flected that “ey were nice moments M. Trudeau’s family was presented, was because I knew how much my dad liked apparently warm, and reflected the old her. You could tell my father was really friendship between Trudeau père and his proud to be introducing his son to the then young children. e first Trudeau – e Governor General (top) shares a happy moment with his newly-installed Prime Minister. e Queen.” At a Canadian High Commission pirouette notwithstanding – had himself Queen (le) greets her 12th Canadian Prime Minister at Buckingham Palace on November 25. Prime lunch later that day, M. Trudeau added enjoyed a good rapport with e Queen, Minister Trudeau (right) meets with the Heir to the rone at CHOG Meeting in Malta. that he had found HM continued on page 2

IN THIS EDITION OF CMN – DANS CE NUMÉRO DE NMC Editorial comments: A Toast to the League p. 6 Queen’s historic reign celebrated pp. 8-9 Trudeau & Harper appraisals pp. 2-3 Quebec Judge confirms Succession Act Sing Happy Birthday to Queen Book review: Canada and the Crown Cour confirme le loi canadien Chantons Bonne Fête à la Reine p. 6 Critique de livre: Le Canada sur la succession p. 3 Invitation: Governor General et la Couronne pp. 10 ff Citizenship Oath – Lagassé p. 4 to visit League April 20 p. 7 2016 Accession Lunch p. 15 TRUDEAU... TRUDEAU ON THE RECORD

continued from page 1 some called her words almost “cheeky” – ABOUT THE MONARCHY “gracious and insightful, with a unique as she replied to her Prime Minister’s May, 2014, letter to Monarchist League Chairman Robert Finch, as follows: and valuable perspective.” words. “ank you, Mr Prime Minister of ank you very much for taking the time to write to me regarding the e mutual appreciation continued in Canada, for making me feel so old!” Not 1monarchy in Canada. I would also like to thank you for your kind words of Malta, where Commonwealth tradition every day does the famously reserved congratulations [on being elected Liberal leader]. dictated that the newest Prime Minister Monarch use in public her renowned pri - At the 2012 Liberal Party Convention, delegates were invited to introduce, amongst the leaders should toast the or - vate sense of humour. debate, and vote on Liberal policy. Delegates explicitly rejected a motion to include ganization’s head at the leaders’ dinner. During the many days to come Cana - Trudeau used the occasion to refer to e dians will see to what extent the sunshine severing Canada’s ties with the monarchy as part of Liberal policy. My view is that Queen’s constant presence in the life of perspective on the person of the Monarch severing our centuries-old connection to the monarchy is not a decision to be made Canada, spoke of her “selfless service” and is reflected also in the respect for the in - lightly. e monarchy remains a cornerstone of Canada’s foundation, and any de - recalled her 1947 vow, as he asked those stitution of the Maple Crown. at said, bate surrounding changes to this institution must include as many Canadians as present to charge their glasses. the beginnings could not have been more possible in the discussion. e Queen was unusually personal – propitious. ank you again for taking the time to write. I always appreciate the op - portunity to hear the thoughts and opinions of Canadians. It is through such exchanges of ideas and opinions that I can best represent not only my constituents, but all Canadians. EDITORIAL COMMENT Sincerely, Justin P. J. Trudeau Member of Parliament for Papineau STEPHEN HARPER: Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada

MONARCHIST October 2015, reply to League election-time survey of party positions e debt owed to the former [emphasis added]: Queen Elizabeth II is the longest reigning monarch in Prime Minister was expressed well, 2Canadian history and remains a beloved figure for many Canadians. Over centuries ago, by the Bard: “More is the past 63 years, she has stood with Canada through key moments of our coun - thy due than more than all can pay.” try’s history and, as our nation underwent change and transformation, has been e useful, carefully-conceived and a rock of stability and a steadfast keeper of tradition. e Liberal Party has no well-executed renaissance in the intention of re-opening the Canadian constitution on this issue. Her Majesty national government’s support of will remain an integral part of our country’s evolution, progress, and future. the Crown over the Harper years is the more remarkable as the PM – he was quick to observe – was not a natural monarchist, but one Prime Minister Harper and Monarchist Dom - brought to appreciate the institu - inion Chairman Finch enjoying in-flight dis - TEXT OF TRUDEAU TOAST AT tion by a key Minister in the person cussion aer attending Diamond Jubilee cele - COMMONWEALTH LEADERS’ MEETING of Jason Kenney, and a coterie of brations in London. uber-loyal staffers, including but not limited to Ray Novak, Aaron Campbell Ladies and gentlemen, and Alykhan Velshi. As has so oen been the case during the Reign, the pro - As the Commonwealth’s new - cess was greatly encouraged by the profound respect for the Sovereign which est head of government, I am developed through Mr Harper’s meetings with Her Majesty. honoured to offer a toast to Your In removing the Prime Ministerial authority over vice-regal appointments Majesty, Head of the Common - at least from its preliminary stages by first forming an ad hoc non-partisan wealth and Queen of Canada. In committee to find a Governor General in 2005 (how brilliantly they suc - so doing, I am deep ly mindful of ceeded!), then institutionalizing the process, Mr Harper made a contribution Your Majesty’s long and tireless of enduring value to the institution. True, M. Chretien’s very fine appoint - service to the Commonwealth ments of Lieutenant Governors were made in what he openly stated was a po - and its citizens. sition open to traditional patronage. But the invitation to public nomination “As Head of the Common - and citizens’ consideration of individuals, in the first instance, was appropriate wealth you embody our family of to the times, and taken up enthusiastically. What perhaps is less known is the nations and the values expressed fact that the PM personally spent hours with the Committee to discuss its in the Charter collectively en - favoured nominees. Clearly, the Prime Minister sought and never abandoned dorsed three years ago. Your ex - a personal responsibility for the ultimate selection of those who would repre - ample of dedication and selfless service inspires as we strive to build our societies sent his and our Sovereign. No less enduring was the first full-time appoint - on the principles of respect, inclusiveness and dignity. ment of a Canadian Secretary to e Queen and locating the loyal and capable “You were only nine years old when you carried out what was perhaps your Kevin MacLeod within the Privy Council Office. No Canadian better enjoys first official duty on behalf of Canada – an appearance on a postage stamp. his Monarch’s confidence. at was 1935. From that moment to this, Your Majesty has been such a con - e Prime Minister was also, rightly, cautious in matters touching the stant presence in the life of Canada that a modern history of our nation could Crown. In the return of the Navy and Air Force designations to “Royal” he be written entirely with vignettes from your life. pushed those encouraging him to do to make absolutely sure the restored “Here’s one: In 1951, Princess Elizabeth attends her first hockey game, in nomenclature would have wide support within and without the Forces, so that Montreal, at the legendary Montreal Forum. And another: in 1959, Queen Eliz - a future PM would not advise Her Majesty to reverse the action. In the event, abeth opens the St. Lawrence Seaway. And another: In 1967, Queen Elizabeth the insights of Christopher McCreery found a simpler way to achieve the de - cuts Canada’s centennial cake on Parliament Hill as Canadians sing Happy sired goal; but Mr Harper’s insistence on prudent consideration was a wise Birthday. one. So too was his perception that his desire to restore the personal imprint “ere are countless scenes like these to choose from. In a single tour in 1959, of e Queen on diplomatic credentials was not a cause he should press on over 45 days, you visited 90 towns and cities. It is safe to say that you have seen HM or Palace. Knowing which battles to pursue, and when the field is better more of Canada than almost any Canadian. And always, Canadians have quit gracefully, is a mark of thoughtful leadership. watched and admired their indefatigable queen, forming cherished memories. e vitriol surrounding Mr Harper during his final year or two in office “Some of those memories are of formal state occasions. Some are more per - lies beyond the Monarchist League’s remit. It largely did not touch the Crown, sonal. And for a few, some are both. though it made some possible further initiatives unwise. It is to the Prime “One that I personally remember well from my childhood and indeed, trea - Minister’s credit that, from the beginning, he and his colleagues knew the dan - sure is this: It is 1982, again on Parliament Hill. Queen Elizabeth signs the Con - gers, especially for a Tory government, to be seen to be wrapping itself in the stitution Act, thus empowering Canada’s legal foundation, including our Crown to its supposed advantage, à la Ontario Premier Bill Davis over a gen - Charter of Rights and Freedoms. eration ago, or in pursuit of its overall “political” goals. It must have encour - “On that cool day in April, seated next to you, was my father. Pierre Elliott aged the PM to see that the climate in Canada was such that all the federalist Trudeau was your fourth Canadian prime minister. I am your twelh. party leaders expressed their support for the Crown in a survey taken by the “In 1947, you famously vowed that your whole life would be devoted to the League during the Fall 2015 campaign. service of the Commonwealth. You more than honoured your vow. And for that, We thank Stephen Harper for his loyalty and service, wish him well in an on behalf of all Canadians and indeed, of all of us citizens of the Common - active retirement and venture to express the hope that aer an appropriate in - wealth, I thank you. terval his Sovereign will honour him as she has other of her long-serving “I now ask you to rise, charge your glasses and join me in a toast to Her Prime Ministers. Majesty the Queen. e Queen!”

2 – Canadian Monarchist News – Spring 2 016 QUEBEC JUDGE UPHOLDS CANADIAN SUCCESSION TO THRONE ACT Ruling largely ignored by national media

Highlights of Justice Westminster and the Canadian Constitu - tion whereby the King or Queen of the Bouchard’s decision United Kingdom (chosen by rules of suc - COUR CONFIRME LE LOI CANADIEN In a decision released in mid-February, cession that are solely the purview of the Judge Claude Bouchard of the Quebec Su - UK Parliament) is the King or Queen of SUR LA SUCCESSION AU TRÔNE perior Court found against a challenge to Canada. the Canadian Succession to the rone e League felt that these changes, to Faits saillants de la décision du l’honorable juge Bouchard Act, which passed unanimously through which all the Commonwealth Realms had CMN sera heureux d’envoyer la décision complète sur Parliament in 2013. e Act made the agreed at their Meeting in Perth in 2011, demande – il suffit d’envoyer un courriel à [email protected] order of Succession solely based on birth were timely and right. It also vigorously order, removing the historic precedence supported the means used by the Govern - Dans une décision de mi-février, le juge Claude Bouchard de la Cour su - given to male heirs. It also removed the ment of Canada to give them effect – the périeure du Québec a trouvé contre un défi au loi sur la succession au Trône, unique proscription on the Sovereign’s normal process of legislation passed qui a été adoptée à l’unanimité par notre Parlement en 2013. La loi a fait l’ordre marrying a Catholic. by Parliament and given Royal Assent. de succession uniquement sur la base de l’ordre de naissance, retirant la priorité To a lay reader, the Learned Judge’s de - We also acknowledged that some good historique donnée aux héritiers mâles. Il a également levé la proscription cision seemed based on several principal monarchists and legal scholars might pre - unique sur le droit de Souverain d’épouser un catholique. foundations: One is that no UK law was fer another way of accomplishing the Un passage clé de la décision du savant juge (qui se trouve au par 155, p 37 being imposed upon Canada; rather, that changes; they demanded a Constitutional du texte) est la suivante: « La Loi de 2013 n’a pour objet que de donner l’assen - Canada had “imported into its constitu - Amendment which would additionally timent du Canada aux modifications à la loi britannique sur la succession au tional order” the doctrines and principles require the agreement of all ten provincial Trône, selon la convention constitutionnelle du deuxième, considérant de of British Constitutional Law such as e legislatures. Chairman Finch and other préambule du Statut de Westminster de 1931. Ainsi, elle ne fait que reconnaitre Bill of Rights and the Act of Settlement, League officials pointed out scholarly que le Roi ou la Reine au Royaume-Uni, désigné en certu des lois du Royaume- but not their texts. Canada was not acting opinion against this view – and made the Uni, est le Roi ou la Reine au Canada. » to change “the office of e Queen” – practical point that opening up the Con - La Ligue a estimé que ces changements, à laquelle tous les royaumes du which under Sec 41 would trigger a Con - stitution would be a sure occasion for Commonwealth avaient convenu lors de leur réunion à Perth en 2011, étaient stitutional Amendment – but voluntarily consequential mischief-making by the indicating its own agreement to the then-separatist government of Quebec en temps opportun et à droite. Il a également soutenu vigoureusement les change of Succession rules adopted by the (which launch ed the appeal, quite incred - moyens utilisés par le gouvernement du Canada pour leur donner effet – le Westminster Parliament, which was act - ibly joined by a few monarchists), or in - processus normal de la législation adoptée par le Parlement et reçu la sanction ing nationally and not imperially. Second, deed any province for a variety of reasons royale. this agreement was by convention, indeed based on the normal federal-provincial Nous partageons maintenant l’espoir que, avec un gouvernement fédéraliste in line with the convention under which tensions inherent in a federal state. e au pouvoir au Québec, aucun autre appel ne sera lancé, et que plus de certitude Canada had acted at the time of the 1936 League welcomed the debate, but regret - a été donnée aux changements souhaitables apportées à la succession au trône Abdication. To do otherwise would dis - ted the vituperative nature of some of the canadienne. rupt the symmetry found in the Statute of commentary on a point of law, given that

the substance and positive effects of the background of the Canadian Constitution Act were agreed to by all. Our role in af - without the necessity of a reference to any EDITORIAL COMMENT fecting opinion, especially in the Senate, article of the Bill of Rights given the ab - was subsequently praised in a letter to Mr sence of a specific reference to that ef - JUSTIN TRUDEAU: BEGINNINGS Finch by the Hon Bob Runciman, Chair - fect...” man of the Senate Constitutional and (130, p. 33 of the French text: “...the How very encouraging it is to see the evidently-warm relationship the Legal Affairs Committee. Court does not believe that the rules of Prime Minister has developed with e Queen. e gracious comments M. We now share the hope that with a succession to the rone, adopted by the Trudeau has made about HM on several occasions were clearly expressed and Federalist government in power in Que - United Kingdom, as being incorporated evidently sincere, not least of which in his Toast at the Commonwealth Con - bec, no further appeal will be launched, into the Canadian Constitution on the ference. Nor is it every day that our famously-reserved Queen not only recip - and that greater certainty has now been basis that they would form an integral rocates the warmth of feelings directed to her, but publicly jokes with one of given to the desirable changes made to the part of its structure. It is not so much the her Prime Ministers. So that is all good. Succession to the Canadian rone. written rules that form the background of At the same time we can’t be surprised that what one might term the Lau - the Canadian Constitution, but rather the rentian Elite could not grasp the concern of the Monarchist League and others ••• principle of an hereditary succession de - that, unannounced, in the first weekend of the new Government’s time in of - termined by the United Kingdom, and, as fice, a picture of e Queen was taken down from the Pearson Building where As is usual in the Province of Quebec, such, this principle is not modified by the the Department of Global Affairs is housed. e Minister, Stéphane Dion, is the Judge’s decision was rendered in UK Succession to the Crown Act 2013 nor a monarchist. It was a ham-fisted move by bureaucrats – and yes, so was the French, the language in which the case was by the Canadian Succession to the rone removal of the Pellan paintings during the time of M. Dion’s Conservative heard. His Clerk has advised that a trans - Act 2013 by virtue of which Canada has predecessor John Baird. Baid should have ordered e Queen’s picture hung lation is being prepared, which should be given its assent.” without removing M. Pellan’s fine work – and the reverse is true as well – oh, ready in early-to-mid April. For the pur - (139, p. 34 of the French text): “e petty politics! poses of this article and the convenience of Court is of the opinion that the constitu - But, however petty, is it fair to underline there need be no false dichotomy readers, CMN has translated several key tional protection given to “the office of created between varieties of “Canadian Art.” e Queen’s image (how fine to paragraphs of the ruling. ese are entirely e Queen” through use of the amending see the Jubilee portrait hanging at Rideau Hall as a backdrop to the swearing unofficial; the only approved texts are procedure provided by Article 41a) of the in of our Prime Minister and his colleagues!) is a supreme example of such those released by the Court. Only a read - Constitution Act 1982 is intended primar - ing of the complete ruling of the Judge can ily to guarantee that the powers, position “Art,” as is Charlie Pachter’s Sovereign on a Moose or a state lithograph hung provide a full understanding of his reasons and functions conferred on the Crown as in public places. Such art is not a negation of the huge volume of what people in a complex constitutional matter. an institution cannot be changed without tend to think of as more purely “Art” by innumerable talented Canadian (53, p. 12 of the French text): “...it is not agreement of the parties enumerated painters, be they Pellan or Group of Seven or... Variety and inclusiveness is so much the articles of these Imperial there in, and that, independently of the our Monarch’s way, representative to the core of the Canadian ethos. statutes which form part of the Canadian person designated to occupy the position It cannot have pleased M. Trudeau that the first controversy of his Admin - Constitution, nor the rules of the succes - of King or Queen of the United King - istration – better let us call it a provocation on a pallet – emerged on a sensitive sion as such, but much more the under - dom.” subject of little ultimate significance. But it may have encouraged the palpable lying principles of these rules, such as that (155, p. 37 of the French text): “e sole respect for the Crown the PMO showed in the days following, and reminded which recognizes that whoever is King or purpose of the Canadian Succession to the those that the League “stands on guard” not to pontificate about each symbol, Queen of the United Kingdom is King or rone Act of 2013 is to give Canada’s as - but in recollection of how, in Canada’s not so recent history as in those of other Queen of Canada, and this stemming sent to the modifications made to the Suc - lands, the deliberate removal of iconic imagery can be a precursor to attempts from an hereditary succession deter - cession by British Law, according to the to make more substantive changes. mined by the United Kingdom.” constitutional convention of the latter de - We take M. Trudeau at his word; we will judge him and his colleagues by (59, p. 13 of the French text): “In the riving from the Preamble to e Statute their actions (how good to see in Cabinet not only M. Dion but another same way [as the independence of the of Westminster of 1931. Accordingly, the known monarchist, Carolyn Bennett). We look forward to working with the magistracy is from the outset an unwrit - 2013 Act only recognizes that the King or new government and wish it well for the sake of the Realm. “By their fruits ten constitutional principle] the principle Queen of the United Kingdom, as desig - shall ye know them.” of an hereditary succession determined by nated by the laws of the United Kingdom, the United Kingdom forms a part of the is the King or Queen of Canada.”

Les Nouvelles monarchiques du Canada – printemps 2 016 – 3 CONSTITUTIONALIST PHILIPPE LAGASSÉ ADDRESSES MONARCHIST GROUPS THE ONTARIO COURT OF Crown is our concept of the state. All believe and say whatever they want about APPEAL & CITIZENSHIP: sovereign authority in and of Canada (be the Queen and the monarchy, but that it legislative, executive or judicial) flows when comes time to become a Canadian WHY SHOULD NEW CITIZENS from the Crown, and what we call Canada citizen, they can be required to swear SWEAR ALLEGIANCE TO is understood to be the ‘body politic’ of loyalty to what the Crown means in Cana - Her Majesty in right of Canada. Moreover, dian law. To become a Canadian, new cit - THE QUEEN? the Crown and Her Majesty in right of izens must swear an oath to what “THE HOLLOWED CROWN” Canada are treated as a single entity. So, Canadians have chosen to retain as their IN CANADA Canada is the body politic of the Crown concept of the state, the Queen. So far as and Her Majesty in right of Canada is the we can tell, the SCC agrees, at least Prof Philippe Lagassé spoke to two en - fount of all sovereign authority in and of enough that it wasn’t willing to reconsider thusiastic audiences – the Osgoode Hall Canada. In addition, Her Majesty in right the merits of the case. Law School Constitutional Affairs Club of Canada is a fictional legal person. is However, the ONCA ruling was not all and the Monarchist League’s GTA Branch means that the state in Canada is a legal bad news for those who oppose the oath. – during a Toronto visit, in late March, person, which explains how the Canadian When describing what the Queen refers centering his remarks as to why the Oath state holds property, contracts, employs to, the court focused on the fictional legal of Allegiance in Canada is properly an civil servants, and commissions military personality alone. e court implied that Oath to e Queen. e observations officers. the oath doesn’t refer to the Queen in her below formed the basis of his addresses. Although Her Majesty in right of natural capacity. As well, the court noted e Supreme Court of Canada de - Canada is a fictional legal person, she is Philippe Lagassé that “the oath is a symbolic commitment clined to hear a Charter challenge against also a real physical person, the woman we to be governed as a democratic constitu - the oath to the Queen that’s required of know as Queen Elizabeth II. e physical e appellants challenged the oath on tional monarchy unless and until demo - new citizen. My fellow blogger Léonid Queen Elizabeth II makes manifest the the grounds that the Queen represented cratically changed.” is suggests two Sirota was unimpressed with the decision. fictional Her Majesty. Put differently, something different to them. For instance, things. First, that there is no compelling He also didn’t think much of my quip that Queen Elizabeth II embodies and gives a according to Simone Topey, who is a Ras - reason for Parliament to retain a reference efforts to change the oath should have physical form to the legal entity that is Her trafarian, the Queen represents the head to the Queen in her natural capacity in the focused on Parliament to begin with. Un - Majesty in right of Canada. Together the of Babylon. Swearing an oath to her oath. e oath could be rewritten to make fortunately, as the SCC’s refusal to hear a physical Queen and fictional Her Majesty would therefore be contrary to Topey’s re - reference to more anodyne terms, such Charter challenge to the law of royal suc - form a single corporation with two capac - ligious convictions. In ruling against the as the Crown, Her Majesty in right of cession further highlights, attempts to use ities, one natural, the other legal. appellants, the ONCA ruled that they had Canada, or simply Canada (as Australia one part of the constitution to undermine Now, all this helps us understand the misunderstood the oath: they were being has done) without taking away from the another are ill-fated. And while I under - oath. e Crown is our concept of the asked to swear to the Queen as under - symbolism. Second, by stressing that the stand Sirota’s contention that the case did - state and fount of sovereign authority. Her stood in the context of the constitution Queen is a mere symbol, the ONCA ar - n’t aim to undermine the legitimacy of the Majesty in right of Canada is synonymous and Canadian law. Whatever their per - guably gives Parliament a reason to Crown, I think that was the underlying with the Crown. Queen Elizabeth II em - sonal interpretation of who or what the rewrite the oath. Simply put, why retain issue. I suspect the courts believed this, bodies Her Majesty in right of Canada. Queen is, the court found that when it an oath that offends certain new citizens too. Nonetheless, the ONCA has given Hence, Queen Elizabeth II is the physical comes to swearing the oath, it’s the defi - if it’s merely symbolic? Parliament a compelling reason to alter manifestation of the Canadian state and nition of the Queen in Canadian law that Indeed, I’d argue that the ONCA went the oath, and the ruling has le us with a the sovereign authority in and of Canada. matters. a bit too far in scrubbing the Queen of any poorer understanding of the Crown in When new citizens swear an oath to the is is why the case was ultimately substance. e logic behind swearing an Canada. Queen, they are being asked to swear to about the legitimacy of the Crown in the oath to Queen Elizabeth II is that the Why are new citizens asked to swear the state and the source of all legitimate constitution. Had the courts found that Queen, Her Majesty in right of Canada, an oath to the Queen? e answer is com - legal and governing authority. ey are, in the appellants’ individual interpretation of and the Crown are bound together in law. plex. effect, being asked to swear loyalty to what the oath should trump the constitutional Denying that new citizens are being asked Our constitution doesn’t have a con - ‘Canada’ actually is in law and under our sense, the line between personal views to swear an oath to the Queen in her nat - cept of the state, per se. Instead, the constitution. and legal fact would have been blurred. ural capacity misrepresents the nature of e Crown would no longer have any the Crown. New citizens are being asked definitive meaning; instead of personify - to swear to the Queen in both her natural READ IN PRINT ing the Canadian state, the Queen could capacity and her legal capacity, since her plausibly be whatever anyone believes she natural and legal capacities are inter - A new service for Monarchist League might be. Suffice it to say, we would not twined. at’s the best way to explain why accept this with respect to other public in - an oath to Queen Elizabeth II is an oath members who do not have email stitutions. Individuals are not free to in - to Canada or to the state. Otherwise, we’re In a perfect world, we would wish everyone had and used email! is is not terpret parliamentary statutes in any way stuck with the strategy that the ONCA a moral judgment, but a reflection of the ability of that medium to reach good they want, for example. Similarly, we ex - employed, stating that a plain reading of monarchists instantly and at no cost or bother. pect court rulings to be respected, not - the oath is incorrect, despite the fact that Nonetheless, it is clear that a notable tranche of our membership is immune withstanding our personal disagreements Canada’s citizenship guide emphasizes a to the charms of the net. Rather than retreat as a rejected suitor, we bow to your with their reasoning. It’s unclear why we plain reading. choice – we hear you! We want you to read about what we’re doing and how shouldn’t afford the Crown the same A literal reading of the oath isn’t you can help the cause. standing, except for the fact that the mon - wrong. It actually tells us more about our archy is contentious. If the case had gone constitution than the symbolic reading So, as of this issue of CMN we are offering those without email a new service the other way, the Crown would arguably the ONCA offered. But defending a literal from the League: the option, without any cost to you, to receive print versions have become a lesser part of the constitu - reading of the oath requires accepting that of our email communiqués. We will batch them in two or three to an envelope, tion as compared to Parliament and the Canada is a constitutional monarchy in and mail them to you. judiciary, one that can be disregarded if it more than a symbolic sense. Since the All we ask is that you be a paid-up member of the League, and fill in the clashes with our personal beliefs. courts may not be willing or able to do form below. If you do ever switch to electronic communication, do let us know ankfully, that’s not what happened. that anymore , those who challenged the so we can put the postage and time to another use. e ONCA rightly found that people can oath may have won aer all. THANK YOU for your loyal support, in whatever the medium! 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4 – Canadian Monarchist News – Spring 2 016 ROYAL ROUNDUP QUEEN RE-OPENS CANADIAN HIGH COMMISSION IN LONDON, RECEIVES KEYS

Drew MacEachern of the University of PEI e Prince of Wales greets local monarchists in Model Parliament. the crowd during HRH’s recent homecoming. guests for the event, and would even be global perspective, focusing largely on my participating. I had recently discovered a new role as Coordinator of the UPEI Inter - e Queen aer re-opening Canadian High Monarchist UC Law Dean Ian Holloway sworn new found curiosity in the institution of national Student Buddy Program. My Com mission, accompanied by former Foreign of the Privy Council by the Governor General, the Monarchy. I had previously consid - speech was made so much better by an Affairs Minister John Baird. with whom he had once shared a job! ered myself a Republican; however, I had impromptu suggestion by my colleagues April 16 found e Queen and Duke of Another of those select appointments recently begun to reappraise my support on the government side. During my practice Edinburgh at Grosvenor Square, where took place on January 30, 2015, where for the Royal Family for a variety of speeches I mentioned that I am currently Her Majesty toured the new facilities, ac - University of Calgary Dean of Law and reasons. As such, I was rather excited to in the process of learning Japanese and cepted its keys from High Commissioner avid monarchist Ian Holloway was sworn see members of the Monarchy in the flesh. hope to study abroad someday. My fellow Gordon Campbell and admired a soaring a Privy Councillor consequent upon his As such I think it is accurate to say, my co- government members mentioned that I new space housing Canadian art, and appointment to the Security Intelligence participants were all concerned with un - should throw in some Japanese. Deciding named the Queen Elizabeth Atrium. Review Committee. us Holloway is derstanding what exactly what was going this was a good idea I quickly decided to permitted to share in state secrets, and to happen, and what we were going to say add in “I am studying Japanese” ( watashi MESSAGE FROM HER keep them inviolable, in the same way as during our practices leading up to the wa nihongo o benkyou shiteimasu for those MAJESTY THE QUEEN members of Cabinet. Dr Holloway was re - event. interested) aer this mention be cause it FOLLOWING THE DISCOVERY cently appointed to a second term as Dean e morning of the event, May 20th, was the most coherent and relevant thing OF ONE OF THE FRANKLIN of the UC Law Faculty. started off slowly. e Royal visitors were I could think of on the spot. During my EXPEDITION SHIPS set to arrive roughly half-way through actual speech I noticed the Prince slightly e Queen transmitted a message to CHARLES AND CAMILLA’S the event. We would go through a little raise his eyebrows and smile in pleasant the Governor General on September 9, VISIT TO PEI’S ROTARY more than half the speeches, stop, and surprise when I threw this in. 2014, following the discovery of one of the YOUTH PARLIAMENT then resume the rest once the Royal En - Aer my speech finished, we contin - two ships belonging to the Franklin Expe - SPURS LOYALTY tourage arrived at Province House. Even - ued with other interventions. e Prince dition lost in 1846: Reflections of a New Young Monarchist. tually a break was called to wait for the and Duchess appeared to enjoy it; the “I was greatly interested to learn of the by Drew MacEachern arrival of eir Royal Highnesses in the Prince let out a little chuckle aer the discovery of one of the long-lost ships of When I got the invitation to participate Chamber. When they did arrive it was al - youth premier and I decided to bang our Captain Sir John Franklin. Prince Philip in the Special 2014 Rotary Youth Parlia - most surreal to see the Royals as regular desks and let out a few “hear, hears” in joins me in sending congratulations and ment, being held at Province House, the people in the flesh. e made their way support of our colleagues. en we went good wishes to all those who played a part seat of Prince Edward Island’s legislature to the front of the chamber to sit with into a brief question period where we in this historic achievement.” and meeting place of the 1864 Charlotte - the Speaker of the Legislature, the Hon. were asked questions we decided upon town Conference, I did not expect that it Carolyn Bertram, who was presiding over earlier by the Speaker. However, Prince PRINCE OF WALES would be such a monumental occasion. the event. e seating arrangement between Charles decided to ask his own question SWORN TO CANADIAN PRIVY While currently entering my third year of them was a rather interesting blend of about how the page program has helped COUNCIL – LEAGUE MEMBER university, I had participated in the Ro - legislative and royal tradition. Since, due us understand the political system and IAN HOLLOWAY ALSO tary Youth Parliament held in Province to parliamentary tradition, the Chamber whether it affected our desire to get in - JOINS ELITE BODY House sponsored by Rotary International belongs to the Speaker, no one could sit volved with politics. Aer this, all the stu - During his most recent Canadian during both my Grade 11 and 12 years, as higher than her, especially not in her chair. dent participants got to come out onto the home coming, the Prince of Wales was well as serving as a legislative page in However, as per their royal status, no one floor of the Legislature and have one-on- sworn into the Queen’s Privy Council for Grade 12. In fact, all of the participants in could be seated higher than the Royals. one talks with eir Highnesses. I was on Canada by the Governor General at a pri - this Youth Parliament were drawn from As a result, they were all seated at equal the side that talked with Prince Charles. I vate ceremony in Halifax. A press release current or former pages. With that ex - level at the clerks’ desk at the foot of the shook his hand and briefly discussed with from the Prime Minister’s Office ex - perience, it seemed that this Youth Parlia - Speaker’s chair. I found this a very visual HRH the experience of being a page and plained that “His Royal Highness e ment, debating one question, “whether representation of how both democracy my work as a legislative intern compiling Prince of Wales has shown unwavering the youth of today are prepared to carry and mon archy, two seemingly incompatible a list of unparliamentary language. ey dedication to Canada throughout his life - on the work of the Fathers of Confedera - con cepts, have evolved to stand side-by- then le to continue their tour of the time, including through a number of tion” would be a nice throwback to our side in our parliamentary constitutional Island. charities and other good works. It is most past experiences. monarchy. Later that evening, when I returned fitting that he joins a select few beyond Subsequently it was a very pleasant, if I was the second to speak aer the home, I submitted my application for a Canadian parliamentarians who are ap - not slightly intimidating, shock when I Royals arrived. My topic focused on how free trial membership in the Monarchist pointed as a member of the Queen’s Privy discovered the Prince of Wales and the international experiences are important League of Canada. Council for Canada.” Duchess of Cornwall would be the special for developing Canadian youth to have a

(le) Indefatigable League supporter and benefactor, Byron omas of Georgetown, Ontario, is pre - (right) An important encounter for e Canadian Royal Family, vice-regals and provincial leaders sented to the Princess Royal before a private dinner during a recent homecoming to Toronto. (centre) with First Nations people at Kitchen uh maykoosib. Newly appointed as honorary Canadian Rangers, Long-time League member Matthew Rowe (wearing plaid scarf) in attendance on the Prince of Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, Ontario’s then Lieu tenant-Governor designate Elizabeth Wales during the Prince’s Canadian Charities event in support of its Campaign for Wool. Matthew Dowdeswell, the Countess of Wessex, and Ruth-Ann Onley, wife of Ontario’s outgoing Lieutenant is Director of Operations of the PCC. Governor, proudly wear their Ranger hoodies. Credit: Peter Moon

Les Nouvelles monarchiques du Canada – printemps 2 016 – 5 A Toast to the League: Its Work from a YM Perspective University of Toronto precious, but we are not! those of the Netherlands or Spain Second, the League was the or Jamaica or Malaysia. We cele - Young Mon arch ist first Loyal Society to go onto the brate May 2-4. We delight in the Aidan Nicholas reflects web – in 1996. e fih iteration varied personalities and priorities of that website is soon to be intro - of our 11 vice-regal representatives on the new focus of the duced to our members. We were of the Sovereign, each bringing a Monarchist League the first to tweet a Royal Home - distinct tone, all sharing in a deep coming – and the Palace joined loyalty. We toast Victoria and Eliz - of Canada in on that occasion! e first abeth as Mothers of the Canadian Delivered at the annual Monarchist to move most communications Confederation. We remember that League of Canada’s annual Accession from expensive and slow-to-be it was George V who in 1921 fore - Luncheon, this speech brought resounding delivered print – to the instanta - shadowed our beloved National applause and many requests for its text. neous and inexpensive email and Flag by declaring red and white as It is my honour and my happy task to the web. We’ve produced three the colours of Canada, and our pre - propose today the Toast to the League: an English films on YouTube, our sent Queen who proclaimed that honour because together with all of you, GTA Branch has added two Flag in 1965. We see the Crown at I so respect the work of the League today, Monarchist Moments to that col - its most enduring and popular as over the past 45 years of its unequalled lection – and within a month or when draped in the Maple Leaf – service to Crown and Canada; a happy two the YM’s will be adding forever! task, as my fellow Young Monarchists and our first French-language film, Sixth, the League never rests on I find so much enjoyment in our shared where in Quebeckers will reflect its laurels. It sees in the millions efforts to promote our cause. on the value of the Crown for La hailing William and Catharine What do we most value in the League? Belle Province. In a word, the League may Fourth, the League focuses its message from coast to coast to coast the resonance And why am I proud to be a member? be promoting a venerable institution; but and chooses its battles: its accomplish - of their youth and enormous potential for First, the League focuses on the insti - we do so using the tools of today’s modern ments range from the symbolic to the the Crown; but it realizes too that excite - tution of constitutional monarchy, not on communication methods. substantive – a long list you can read on ment fades quickly, memories are short personalities and gossip as do the British ird, the League is inclusive: to us not our Chronology – and it has always con - and knowledge of our institutions leaves tabloids and a good many of the social a clichéd nod to political correctness, but centrated on outreach and education, not much to be desired. It knows that social and so-called “conventional” media. We a reality. We adopted a bilingual letter - on some clubby, inward-looking self-con - media moves at lightning speed in cyber- are not “fans” but believers in our coun - head almost at our inception, despite the gratulation. I was so happy to learn that in space, and that as soon as today’s new try’s constitutional arrangements. We fact in 1970 this remained – incredible to Jubilee year our revised educational book - website is launched, the planning must focus on reason, not name-calling di - think – controversial in some quarters. let was in such demand that a first print - start for tomorrow’s. It is actively engaged rected at our republican friends who, And now we have four volunteer transla - ing of 7000 flew off our shelves within in considering for issues arising at the how ever wrong we believe their views, tors so that the League communicates in weeks; so back we went to its generous time of a demise of the rone. And full love Canada as do we; and we target that English and French as befits a national donor to ask if we could print a second. of energy in promoting the Prince of great indifferent centre of our population, organization. Soon we will be adding a is good friend said yes, unhesitatingly. Wales’ Canadian initiatives as the best who, the League realizes, will be won over Chinese-language section to our website. What an example! How this generosity hope for Charles’ happy reign as our King. by the force of repeated reason, not by Our membership is truly diverse. Not we motivates me and my YM buddies to do e League’s efforts are the gi of itself, bombast or bullying. ever believed that monarchists must be more! He is here today. And while we its members, to our Queen, to the institu - Nor are we into the frippery of the WASPS, or for that matter any particular can’t all provide $5000 on request we all tion of Monarchy, to our country, “from trivial: exciters and fancy dress and din - ethnicity or colour or faith – I am so can provide 5000 minutes of our time. So the depths of the land strong and free.” ing-out. Sure, we enjoy a rare event such proud that the League every day better a huge thanks to him and those other few Today we once again affirm our pride as today’s – but most of our work we do mirrors that ineluctable image shared who make the battle possible for us foot- and loyalty, loyalty to Sovereign and pride in t-shirts and jeans, the hard slogging with us by Adrienne Clarkson – of the soldiers. in the League’s 45 years of service, our of postering our campus or answering Aboriginal Circle widening to include us Fih, the League is 100% Canadian. labour and our love; a sceptical radio host or – dare I say – all. Us all. If there’s anything e Queen’s e Maple Monarchy has evolved dis - And so I ask you to rise and join with debating with the unconverted in a pub long reign and the League’s devoted tinctly. We have no need to ape British in - me in drinking to the continuing success at the end of a long day of studies! In history is about, it lies in those two words: stitutions and social mores in promoting of THE LEAGUE – LA LIGUE! a word, we regard the institution as us ALL. and explaining it any more than we would

SING HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE QUEEN CHANTEZ «BONNE FÊT E» THE LEAGUE’S PROJECT TO PAY TRIBUTE EN L’HONNEUR DES 90 ANS TO HER MAJESTY ON HER 90th DE NOTRE REINE! EVERYONE CAN PARTICIPATE VOTRE PARTICIPATION ET PUBLICITÉ DEMANDÉS NB: the information in this article appears on the League’s special landing page at NB: les informations contenues dans cet article apparaît sur ?? la page de destination www.monarchist.ca spéciale de la Ligue au www.monarchist.ca Our Queen will celebrate her 90th birthday on April 21 of this year, although the Le 21 avril, notre reine aura 90 ans. (Son anniversaire « officiel » au Canada est la occasion is marked “officially” on varying dates throughout the Commonwealth. In fête de la Reine, en mai. En défiant les stéréotypes de l’âge et de la « retraite, Sa Majesté Canada, it is Victoria Day. In Britain, it will take place in June, with a national service poursuit sa vie de service au Canada et au Commonwealth. of thanksgiving, a Palace balcony appearance, a giant street party on the Mall and Voici comment vous pouvez vous joindre à une célébration nationale pour Trooping the Colour. What could we possibly ask our fellow Canadians to give a souhaiter un joyeux anniversaire à la Reine. woman whose treasure is not material, but which lies in her life of service, inclusion La Ligue monarchiste du Canada propose aux membres et à tous les Canadiens and community – an example to us all? de créer une vidéo de la chanson « Bonne fête », dont un couplet en français un cou - e League decided that – much like the community celebrations we fostered plet en anglais (nous serions également heureux de recevoir un couplet chanté dans throughout Canada last September to mark the historic length of the reign, our birth - une langue des Premières nations ou dans une langue patrimoniale). day project should be simple and accessible to everyone – a true celebration from our Un « groupe » peut êtr e : les membres d’une famille – un groupe de voisins – la national family to the head of the nation. gang de votre lieu de travail – vous le nommez! So, we are asking you , your family, your friends and any other group you might Nous allons superposer les contributions afin de former un puissant chœur de be associated with, to join with organizations and individuals across the country in bons vœux affectueux, le tout soutenu des vidéos des groupes participants. Ces setting up a video cam and singing a verse of “Happy Birthday to You” in English and groupes seront mentionnés sur la pochette du DVD, lequel sera ensuite envoyé à Sa French (heritage and First Nations languages also welcome) in a certain key, at a cer - Majesté et téléchargé sur les médias sociaux en guise de cadeau de fête . tain tempo, and sending them to a special URL for uploading. e submissions will Comment participer? be “layered” one on top of the other to produce a single mighty chorus reflecting our S’il vous plaît accéder à notre page d’atterrissage spéciale en collant dans votre nav - affection for the Sovereign and the unity of our nation under the rone. igateur www.monarchist.ca/fr/Reine90 How can we participate? Puis, ouvrir les fichiers pdf à la fin de la page d’introduction pour les instructions Access our special landing page by pasting into your browser: www.monarchist.ca. complètes: simple et amusant. Vous avez des questions après avoir lu? Envoyez-nous en open the pdf files at the end of the introduction page for complete instructions: un courriel à [email protected] simple and fun. Any questions aer reading? Email us at [email protected]. S’il vous plaît aussi transmettre ce message à tous ceux que vous connaissez. And also, do kindly pass along this invitation to everyone on your mailing list. Let’s Faisons ensemble une célébration étonnante et sincère! make this an amazing, heartfelt celebration! Date limite pour les soumissions: 25 avril Deadline for submissions: April 25

6 – Canadian Monarchist News – Spring 2 016 VICE-REGAL ROUND-UP Doyon: rôle n’est pas seulement symbolique ~ Dowdeswell to protect integrity of Crown ~ Filmon seeks to connect people ~ Mitchell speaks of the “soft skills” important to education FOUR NEW LIEUTENANT its not explaining how the Lieutenant Governor is e Queen’s representative. GOVERNORS APPOINTED As always, the media focuses on the ex - Since the previous issue of CMN , four penses of the vice-regal office: global - Canadians have been appointed to serve news.ca/video/1909157/a-look-inside-gov e Queen in their respective provinces. ernment-house . From east to west, we hail the willingness As Alberta’s 18th Lieutenant Governor, to take on this responsibility on the part Lois Mitchell began her professional life of QUEBEC’s J Michel Doyon; ON - as a teacher in Vancouver, but quickly be - TARIO’s Elizabeth Dowdeswell; MANI - came engaged in the business and philan - TOBA’s Janice Filmon; and ALBERTA’s thropic life of Calgary, where she founded Lois Mitchell. Rainmaker Global Business Develop - Aidan Slind, the League’s Summer Intern to Ontario Lieutenant Governor Elizabeth Dowdeswell, ment, co-founded CrimeStoppers Calgary speaks at Farewell Reception. Next to Her Honour is Eugene Berezovsky, one of many Interns who and sat on many boards including those have gone on to be employed by the Vice-Regal office. of Hockey Canada and the Calgary Phil - harmonic Orchestra. Her Honour drew upon her classroom experience as she mentioned in her Installation address the need to teach children “the so skills of empathy, patience, compassion and re - siliency that are as important to success in life as any academic learning.”

Après avoir prêté serment en tant que représen - tant de la Reine pour la province de Québec, le Lieutenant-gouverneur, l’hon Michel Doyon, re - çoit les applaudissements du premier ministre, Philippe Couillard. Michel Doyon a été Ontario Lieutenant Governor Elizabeth Dow- Janice Filmon and her husband, former Mani - membre de conseil d’ad - des well with Monarchist League Dominion toba Premier Gary Filmon, meet with eir ministration de Radio- Chairman Robert Finch at recent League Acces - Excellencies at Rideau Hall, under the gaze of... Canada de 1998 à 2008; sion Lunch. Ms Dowdeswell was named Queen’s deux fois bâtonnier du representative on June June 26, 2014. Barreau du Québec; et il an Undersecretary of the United Nations, a servi aussi dans autres and as a deputy minister within the fed - L’hon J. Michel postes de responsabilité eral and Saskatchewan governments. In Doyon, nommé publique. Assermenté le her Installation address, the 29th Lieu - Lois Mitchell was named Alberta’s new Lieu - Lieutenant- 24 septembre, 2015, le tenant Governor pledged to protect the tenant Governor on May 20, 2015. gouverneur 29e Lieutenant-gouver - integrity of the Crown, and spoke of chal - du Québec neur a éxplique le 28 lenges facing Ontario: ensuring responsi - le 21 juillet, 2015 septembre à la Presse ble and inclusive prosperity; the fragility Janice Filmon was named Manitoba’s 25th Lieu - Canadienne que sa fonction “est bien mé - of the planet; and the maintenance of so - tenant Governor on March 23, 2015. connue,” mais “Ce n’est pas seulement cial cohesion. symbolique.” LPC a écrit que Son hon - Janice Filmon came to the vice-regal interviewer of using her own emphases in neur veux jouer un rôle actif dans la so - post well aware of the opportunities and the position as a “stepping stone to make ciété québécoise, particulièrement en ce perils of public life, as her husband Gary a difference” over the ensuing five years; qui a trait à la revalorisation de nos insti - had served as Manitoba’s Premier 1988- and that she loved “the idea of connecting tutions démocratiques, dont celle qu’il in - 1999. However, Her Honour had built an people... reading and saying ‘I want to find carnera au cours des prochaines années. independent résumé as a social worker, in this person and bring them to Govern - Ontario’s Liz Dowdeswell , as she is philanthropy and in her passionate in - ment House’.” known to friends, is a self-described “pol - volvement with the voluntary sector, During the last days of Mrs Filmon’s icy wonk.” An Officer of the Order of chairing the CancerCare Manitoba Foun - predecessor’s time in office, Global News Canada, she was President of the Council dation and founding the ALIVE volunteer produced a short piece with Private Sec - of Canadian Academies at the time of her initiative program. e province’s 25th retary Phyllis Fraser touring Manitoba’s Alberta LG Lois Mitchell inspects the Guard appointment, having previously served as Lieutenant Governor spoke to a Free Press Government House: worth a look despite aer her Installation.

We hope that many members and friends from across Canada Music by ensembles of e Governor General’s Horse Guards join us for this very special occasion. On the eve of the Band, courtesy of LCol Chris Stewardson, CD, AdeC, 90th birthday of Her Majesty e Queen Commanding Officer THE MONARCHIST LEAGUE OF CANADA at invites you and your family to THE CHURCHILL BALLROOM A GALA RECEPTION THE CHELSEA HOTEL, TORONTO in the presence of Wednesday, April 20, 2016 HIS EXCELLENCY THE RT HON DAVID JOHNSTON from 3:00 – 5:00 pm Governor General and Commander in Chief of Canada business dress

Tariff payable online by accessing the League Store Full-time students under age 24 – $20 Scroll down to “Event Tickets” at www.monarchist.ca/en/products Regular ticket – includes hors d’oeuvres – $35 then follow easy instructions to list your ticket requirements and pay with your credit card. Patron’s ticket – includes name in program, coat check, a drink of your choice and hors d’oeuvres – $75 Alternatively, you may pay before April 13 by cheque payable to the League and mailed to: Benefactor’s ticket – includes Patron benefits and seat on stage PO Box 1057, Lakeshore West Stn, during the formal part of the program – limited availability – $150 Oakville, ON L6K 0B2

Les Nouvelles monarchiques du Canada – printemps 2 016 – 7 SEPTEMBER 9, 201 5: 138+ CANADIAN COMMU

&HOHEUDWLRQV$FURVV&DQDGD First participants – two small and 2Q6HSWHPEHU isolated towns: the NWT First Nations community of Whati, and Flowers Cove, 0XQLFLSDOLWpV&pOqEUDQW NL on the Gulf of St Lawrence /H6HSWHPEUH Chief Imam in Canada joins Christian denominations in asking prayers for The Queen

PRQDUFKLVWFD League graphics designer Anton Abaev designed the front of the program for the League’s National Celebration of e Queen’s Historic Reign on September 9th. A few communities are missing (Rothesay & Stanley, NB) as they confirmed participation aer the program had gone to press. n Canada there was confusion and an authority in the nation. 138 cities and It was particularly moving that two of 270 souls in Newfoundland and Labrador, unnecessary abundance of caution towns adopted the suggested approach; the first municipalities to respond affir - set on the Gulf of St Lawrence near to the Iabout celebrating September 9th, 2015, many more issued proclamations or matively to the suggestion of a simple top of the great Peninsula. the day when our Queen’s reign surpassed other wise manifested their loyalty to our civic celebration were the First Nations e League’s own celebration took that of Queen Victoria, Mother of Con - Queen and friend, a contemporary community of Whati, whose population place at Toronto’s Pilot Tavern, where Her federation, with some in officialdom tak - Mother of Confederation. of around 500 lives in the far reaches of Honour the Lieutenant Governor and ing it upon themselves to speak for e A group of Young Monarchists within the NWT, northwest of Great Slave Lake; Deputy Premier Deb Matthews addressed Queen and advising that any recognition the League, led by Aidan Slind, undertook and the Town of Flowers Cove, a place of the diverse crowd and joined in enthusi - of the achievement would not please Her their own special outreach: religious lead - Majesty. More, the imminent election pre - ers of every denomination were asked to cluded any programming engagement on request their congregations to hold e the part of the the federal government, al - Sovereign in prayer on September 9th. though Canada Post, the Royal Canadian ey achieved a remarkable result. It was Mint and the Bank of Canada all hon - good that the Anglican Primate of Canada oured the occasion, the “P” rate postage and many of his Bishops responded affir - stamp being particularly striking. Despite matively (beginning with National Indige - these circumstances, Canadian loyalty nous Peoples Bishop Mark MacDonald). proved resilient: the Governor General But just as heart-warming and – by for - led the way with a Reception at Rideau mer standards, more surprising – were Hall to mark the day, an event to which similar responses from the head of the many Monarchist League members from Canadian Council of Imams (Muslim), across Canada were kindly invited. the Metropolis of the Greek Orthodox e Monarchist League itself spear - Church and the Cardinal Archbishop of headed a simple form of community Toronto (Roman Catholic) together with celebration by writing every municipal other bishops. Yarmouth, NS celebrates the historic reign. Mayor Pam Mood addresses those assembled.

Former Police Chief and community activist Maurice Butler of Morden, MB, spearheaded the civic celebration of e Queen’s reign – and presented the Monarchist League with a fine col - Yarmouth Town Crier, David Olie, reads the lection of all that went into it for the Archives. Mayor’s Proclamation. e colour party is from the Yarmouth Memorial Club

8 – Canadian Monarchist News – Spring 2 016 UNITIES CELEBRATE QUEEN’S HISTORIC REIGN

astic singing of songs of the realms, led by or a queen as a remote figurehead, but the the young Monarchist contingent. advent of walkabouts has helped to forge e Oakville post office was over - a connection between the monarch and whelmed as materials requested by the her people and has reflected the demo - municipalities – the League’s educational cratic spirit of our age. Yet at the same booklets and bilingual flyers, both re - time they strike a careful balance by also printed – were packaged and distributed respecting the dignity that is integral to across the country in late summer. One the high office the Queen holds. Her day’s despatch alone brought over $1500 Majesty has done an exemplary job of to Canada Post’s coffers! maintaining the monarchy, which is one In all, a heartfelt celebration of an his - of the pillars of our democracy. By doing toric Reign was not diminished by the so, she has helped to sustain the combina - lack of national resources: again, the vol - tion of parliamentary democracy and a untary sector and the least bureaucratic constitutional monarchy that we’re so for - Un certain nombre de membres de la Ligue de Montréal ont réunis dans un pub le 9 Septembre de level of governance showed the nimble - tunate to live under. porter un toast au règne historique de la Reine. François Marquette, le président de la branche, est ness lacking further up the chain, and the Our system of government which has assis deuxième à gauche du drapeau de la Ligue. strength of patriotism unencumbered by evolved over many centuries has allowed bureaucracy. And its geographic compass, Canada to become a vibrant and stable appropriately, encompassed the uttermost democracy, and one of the world’s most parts of a far-flung loyal land. successful nations. It ensures that the power of the state is not absolute; that e Premier of Ontario, speaking peace, order and good government en - in the Province’s Parliament dure; and that as citizens we can take con - on September 14, 2015: trol of our destiny and live without fear of ...During her reign, Queen Elizabeth tyranny. e Queen has steered a steady has institutionalized walkabouts, develop - course for more than 63 years. She has ing them into a much-loved tradition. I demonstrated an unwavering commit - am speaking about walkabouts today be - ment to public service, and she has upheld cause of their symbolic importance. Ear - the monarchy as a symbol of stability and lier generations typically perceived a king continuity... Georgetown, ON, League member Byron omas organized a mid-day ceremony attended by hundreds of local celebrants of the Halton Hills.

Over 100 residents of Kisbey, SK, joined by the inhabitants of seven neighbouring communities, en - e Mayor of Windsor, Ontario, pays tribute to e Queen. joyed a celebration of e Queen’s Reign jointly organized by the town and the local Rebekah Lodge.

Rideau Hall: the Governor General’s celebration of e Queen’s historic reign on September 9th in - cluded Monarchist League members invited from across Canada, including (2nd from le) Victoria Branch co-Chairman Bruce Hallsor, standing next to Carleton University YM co-Chairman Ben Sav - age. Senior League spokesman for the League in Western Canada Keith Roy stands immediately le of His Excellency, while Québec Chairman Francois Marquette is 2nd to the right of the Governor e Mayor of Ottawa celebrates e Queen’s Reign General.

Halifax residents celebrated September 9th with a noon-time gathering led by Mayor Savage. Allegiance to Queen reaffirmed on September 9: Flowers Cove, NL

Les Nouvelles monarchiques du Canada – printemps 2 016 – 9 BOOK REVIEW: Canada and The Crown CRITIQUE DE LIVRE: Le Canada et la Couronne edited by/édité par way et l’auteur Christopher Mc Creery. Il D. Michael Jackson & Philippe Lagassé explique avec perspicacité l’énorme portée McGill-Queen’s University Press: 2013 de l’ouvrage, historique au contemporain; ISBN 978-1-55339-204-0 – $39.95 du mœurs vice-royaux du 19ème siècle de is work, together with its companion déploiements internationaux des Forces volumes, is available via CMN: canadiennes d’aujourd’hui. La Couronne, see back page. écrit-il, « est tellement multi- facettes [qu’] Ce livre, avec ses volumes de compagnie, elle touche tant de sujets de la gouver - est offert via NMC: voir la dernière page. nance et la culture politique du Canada. » Review & Commentary by I: Canadian Encounters with Critique et commentaire par e King and Queen arrive at the Old Capital the Crown/Nos rencontres of Québec, 1939: 100,000 would cheer them on Scholasticus & Adsectator avec la Couronne the Plains of Abraham. Canada and the Crown is a collection A rare and knowledgable insight into Laurier would re-echo these senti - of essays largely but not entirely derived both historic and contemporary attitudes ments a generation later, speaking in Paris from presentations made during a Dia - towards the Quebec Crown makes Sena - Michael Jackson, CVO: “great servant of provin - during an 1897 visit of Quebeckers’ pas - mond Jubilee Conference on the Crown cial Crown down many decades” tor Serge Joyal’s essay of first importance, sionate devotion not to the Flag of France in Regina in October, 2012, then edited worth by itself the price of the book, a sin - qua France, but to its being the flag “of our and published in 2013 by the Institute of de le faire non seulement en raison de sa gular tour of a subject de mand ing no less ancient monarchy.” “Je suis profondément Intergovernmental Relations in associa - position en tant que représentant de than seven pages of footnotes! e Sena - attaché aux institutions britanniques,” said tion with the School of Policy Studies at la Reine au Canada, mais aussi que tor, himself a reformed republican, relates the Prime Minister, which, in the tradi - Queen’s University. A particularly attrac - M. Johnston est certainement le plus how for over 350 years French Canadians tions of his language, he dubbed the value tive feature of this volume is that each compréhensif et joyeux promoteur de la were devoted supporters of the Monarchy, of “loyauté.” essay is preceded by a summary para - Couronne canadienne de toute les Gou - which they saw as foundational to the Joyal goes on to make the historic con - graph in the other Official Language. is verneures-générale depuis le bien-aimé rights and freedoms they had benefited nection between these convictions and review and commentary focuses on the Georges Vanier. Dans son texte, il définit from, a “loyalty inseparable from their those which were had not ebbed, but contributions the writers deem most sig - notre Couronne comme « fondamentale - faithfulness to the Catholic Church, part whose public manifestation was kindled nificant and most likely to be accessible to ment canadienne » qui « joue un rôle of an age-old alliance between the rone during the Royal Tour of 1939, perhaps the reading public. symbolique et unificateur... un système de and the Altar.” e nationalism of the 60’s the apotheosis of its expression, when Cet ouvrage est en grande partie le gouvernement qui...suscite l’admiration wreaked havoc on both institutions, with 100,000 hailed George VI and his smiling fruit de deux conférences sur la thême de du monde entier par sa capacité de forger the Crown being seen – and taught – as a Queen on the Plains of Abraham. Not la Couronne tenues à Ottawa (2010) et à le consensus et la stabilité. » symbol of colonial oppression. Joyal sug - least important of the sentiments ex press- Regina (2012) reflètent le regain d’intérêt Michael Jackson – that great servant gests that the arguments of that era have ed by the province’s political elite of du public pour l’institution de la monar - of the Provincial Crown down many not really evolved. e debate, he opines, the day were those of the canny Premier chie au Canada. Une caractéristique par - decades – introduces the work with “is mired in ignorance – evidence of a Maurice Duplessis, who had made his ticulièrement intéressante de ce volume sketches of the essay contributors: they in - form of political immaturity.” reputation in seeking more autonomy est que chaque essai est précédé par un clude eminent scholars of the Crown such Le fait que les Canadiens restaient fi - from the federal government. “To remain paragraphe de résumé dans l’autre langue as his co-editor Philippe Lagassé, Profes - dèles au roi, contents de rester “sujets,” dit altogether French,” he re mind ed his audi - officielle. Ainsi, les lecteurs français et sors David Smith and Peter Russell, Sen - Joyal, est qu’il y a trouvé en Georges III ence, was the intention of the settlement anglais peuvent également comprendre ator Serge Joyal, Dean Ian Holloway and (comme en Louis XV) leur garanti de given Quebec in 1791. e rone, he said, au moins l’argument de base de chaque author Christopher McCreery. He percep - “notre protection royal” et leur assurance is “le rempart de nos institutions demo - article. Cet examen et commentaire se tively explains the wide-ranging contents des “bienfaits des loi de Notre royaume cratiques et de nos libertés constitution - concentrent sur les contributions que les of the book, historical to contemporary, d’Angleterre.” “Ils aiment leur roi” car il a nelles.” auteurs jugent les plus importants et from 19th Century vice-regal mores to to - defendu Québec contre les Américains. In the epoch of the Tour, even republi - les plus susceptibles d’être accessible au day’s international deployments of Cana - Donc ils aiment leur roi anglais. Joyal écrit cans such as Dandurand, together with public. dian Forces. e Crown, he writes, “is so que cette fidelité sauverait la colonie bri - anti-conscriptionists such as Houde, e book begins with a foreword by multi-faceted [that] it touches on multiple tannique.” Ca – et le stupéfication des could speak sincerely of the attachment of the Governor General, an appropriate layers of Canada’s governance and politi - habitants quand ils ont lu les nouvelles the province to the Crown. Joyal suggests person to do so not simply because of his cal culture.” de l’éxecution de Louis XVI. Houde’s formulation proved to be the position as Queen’s Representative in Jackson also provides a very useful Quand en 1864 ont commencé les dis - most felicitous formula “pour décrire en Canada, but also since Mr Johnston is summary of the renaissance in the profile cussions qui mèneraient au Con fed er - clearly the most understanding and and governmental support for the Cana - ation, les représentants du Bas-Canada cheerful proponent of the Canadian dian Monarchy which stemmed from the “n’hésitèrent pas à proclamer que les Crown of any Governor General since intersection of happy events within the colonies devraient être réunies sous la General Vanier. His Excellency regards Royal Family (Jubilee, Royal Wedding, Couronne.” Alors Georges-Etienne Car - our “balanc ed Crown” as “quintessentially William and Catharine’s tour of Canada) tier a déclaré à la Conférence de Halifax, Canadian” and “fulfilling a very real pur - with the useful, purposeful and continu - “I am living in a province in which the in - pose... to blend tradition with modern ing imaginative policies of the Harper habitants are monarchical by religion, by circumstances... a system of government... governments – initiatives notably ad - habit and by the remembrance of past his - admired around the world for its ability mired by many who do not otherwise tory... Our great desire... is not to weaken to forge consensus and stability.” support the Tories, but who credit the monarchical institutions, but on the con - Il est logique que le livre commence Prime Minister and his colleagues for trary to increase their influence...” He Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis with Arch - avec un avant propos par Son Éxcellence their support of the Crown which – as it went on to suggest the expectation of bishop Charbonneau of Montreal: church and le Gouverneur générale du Canada. Son should be – is not a matter which ulti - a Royal head of state for the emerging state passionately loyal to Crown throughout Excellence est une personne appropriée mately swings many votes in a federal country! most of the province’s history. election. And he rightly observes that should Professor David Smith ever pre - pare a new edition of his 1995 volume, e Invisible Crown: e First Principle of Canadian Government, which heralded modern scholarship into the subject aer decades of neglect, he would surely have to drop the “invisible” from the title. Michael Jackson – un serviteur inéga - lée de la Couronne provinciale pendant beaucoup des décennies – présente le tra - vail avec des croquis de contributeurs de dissertation: ils comprennent d’éminents chercheurs de la Couronne comme son co- rédacteur en chef Philippe Lagassé, les e Governor General: “understanding and professeurs David Smith et Peter Russell, cheerful proponent of Canadian Crown”. le sénateur Serge Joyal, Dean Ian Hollo - ..stupéfication des habitants quand ils ont lu les nouvelles de l’éxecution de Louis XVI.

10 – Canadian Monarchist News – Spring 2 016 BOOK REVIEW... CRITIQUE DE LIVRE...

disorder.” ree years’ later, however, e le Québec.” e visit proceeded without Queen’s unremarkable visit to Expo 67 – incident. At a State Banquet, Bourassa technically as guest of the Ex position proposed a toast to Her Majesty, “on be - rather than the state – found her speaking half of a people more confident than ever of the duality of the Canadian experience of their future, qui vous acceuillent avec contributing to its greatness, one not tout le réspect dû à vos éminentes fonc - based on a power struggle, but “par le tions.” Joyal reflects that at that moment don, le rayonnement et l’example.” it was possible to consider that most Que - By the Montreal Olympics of 1976, the beckers were prepared to respect e ever-cautious Premier, Robert Bourassa, Queen as Queen of Canada, of which the tried to have Prime Minister Trudeau rec - province was proud to be a part. ommend that e Queen not accept the While Prime Minister Chrétien him - customary invitation for a country’s head self oen expressed support for the Discours de la Reine au Parlement du Québec, of state to attend the Opening Cere - “Malgré l’absence regrettée du premier ministre Crown, enjoyed a warm personal relation - le 10 octobre 1964. “Nous sommes fièrs du rôle monies and declare the Games had begun. du Québec, il n’est que juste d’associer les Québe - ship with the Sovereign and oen ex - irremplaçable et de la destinée particulière du Faced with a Trudeau adamant in refusing cois et les Québecoises à cette célébration de re - pressed his disinclination for further Canada français.” nouveau.” to do so, Joyal tells us that M. Bourassa Constitutional debates, some of those sur- quelques mots la réalité vécu par les even considered declaring the Stadium in - wrought to Canada by Prime Minister rounding him were openly republican, Canadiens français: ... vous trouverez une ternational territory so that he could say Trudeau’s 16 years in office. Despite nine and without consequences to their own famille qui est le vôtre, familles d’origines, the Sovereign was not on Quebec soil! In homecomings by the Sovereign during his careers floated a “millennial project” by de races et de pensées diverses... qui... à the end, e Queen’s week passed without ministries, there were numerous instances which Canada would abolish the Mon - sa manière, façonne son destin national.” any incident, and low-key security al - of suppression of Royal terminology and archy. It came to nothing. us, posits Joyal, Houde expressed lowed local residents in Bromont, site of the symbolic visibility of the Canadian Whatever the relative warmth to the the view that the expression of French- the equestrian events, to mingle freely Crown. More significant was the begin - Crown in Ottawa, circumstances in Que - Canadian nationalism could free ly de - with the be-kerchiefed monarch walking ning of a process of presenting the Gov - bec following the 1986 high-water mark velop under the Crown. Prophetic words resolutely through the same muddy fields ernor General as Head of State, one for the Monarchy has meant that HM has indeed! as they! It was at the Fisher estate in corrected only in 2009 by Prime Minister not since returned to the province, save Alas, the next return of a Sovereign to nearby Knowlton that the historic photo Harper, and the failed Constitution for ceremonial occasions in Gatineau as Quebec, that of e Queen in 1964, was taken of the immediate Royal Family, Trudeau proposed in 1978, which would part of the National Capital Region. Sep - brought a very different reaction, a home - together for the first time off British soil. have reduced e Queen’s role to one aratism was not dead, aer all, and it rel - coming overshadowed by the infamous e relaxed and successful Olympic purely symbolic and ceremonial. us ished the mischief it could make for the “samedi de la matraque” – literally, “the homecoming gave e Queen further op - also the authorization for Roland Mich - Crown, not least by means of a calculated Saturday of the billy clubs.” For on Octo - portunity to speak of the French fact, ener to undertake the first “state visit” bitterness surrounding the brief service of ber 10, nervous police, far out-numbering which led her to comment on the every - by a Governor General outside North Jean-Louis Roux, a distinguished actor pro-republican demonstrators, waded day lives of Montrealers, who “maintain America. and out spoken federalist named Lieu - with excessive force into the crowd to here the deep roots of French in harmony Joyal is nothing loath to recall a per - tenant Gov er nor by Prime Minister Chré - ‘protect’ the Sovereign. Joyal reveals that with varying cultures and differences, sonal element in Trudeau’s attitude to - tien in 1996. His time in office began with this small body included none other than sans pour autant compromettre les droits wards the Crown, witness the infamous difficulty as Parti Québecois Lucien Bou - the 25-year old Brian Mulroney, then a ou les aspirations des deux éléments fon - pirouette behind e Queen’s back at chard complained that he had not been student-at-law at Laval University. dateurs.” HM went on to describe “the Buckingham Palace in 1977, which the consulted about the appointment. Short - Nothing daunted, e Queen pro - great generosity of spirit” which such a author delicately dubs as suggesting “a ly aer, Roux resigned in the wake of news ceeded to make a remarkable address in vision requires” – and therein lay “la certain element of irreverence” standing reports that as a medical student in 1942 the Legislative Council chamber. Draed grandeur du Canada.” e speech led in contrast to the deference which had al - he had penciled a swastika on his lab coat for her by none other than Governor Claude Ryan to write in Le Devoir that ways been shown to the Sovereign. What - and had taken part in anti-conscription General Georges Vanier, e Queen “Quebeckers... could not but admire the ever his manners, the pragmatic Trudeau demonstrations with anti-Semitic over - noted that every constitution remains intellectual generosity to which the words had no intention of abolishing the Monar - tones, which he acknowledged was “the perfectible, and that no one should be sur - of the Sovereign bore witness.” chy, says Joyal. He respected its legal thoughtlessness of youth” but which he prised if the existing arrangements were Joyal goes on to identify that e structure if not its spirit, and, out of office, said nonetheless did not justify his ac - not responsive to all the problems of the Queen’s signature on the Proclamation of told co-author Tom Axworthy in a 1985 tions. day. And she lauded the “French fact” in the final Patriation of the Constitution in book that he had always said to those ad - at such views were endemic in Que - words which might have surprised a good 1982 brought fresh opportunity for na - vocating republicanism that “the system bec during the 1930’s and 40’s was lost in deal of English Canada, not yet fully con - tionalists to associate the Crown with yet works pretty well. To open the de bate just the flames of nationalist self-righteous in - scious of all that was to come in the next another federal coup against Québec – now would divide Canadians amongst dignation, a reaction not muted despite decades: “nous sommes fièrs du rôle ir - which had not assented to the changes. themselves, et créearait d’énormes acri - the fact Jewish groups did not call for remplaçable et de la destinée particulière is even though HM had herself alluded monies sans resoudre le problème.” 13 Roux’s resignation; that no less than du Canada français. Pendant quatre cent to the situation in direct and most sympa - years later, Trudeau would compare the Pierre Trudeau had on at least one occa - ans il a conservé sa vigeur et sa force... In thetic terms: “Malgré l’absence regrettée myth of an oppressive conquest of French sion in the same epoch donned a Ger man serving the true interests of Quebec, you du premier ministre du Québec, il n’est Canada to the myth of loyalism held by helmet to ride his motorcycle through the will also serve those of Canada, just as the que juste d’associer les Québecois et les those of British descent. He saw these province’s countryside; and that two for - true interests of Canada must respond to Québecoises à cette célébration de renou - mythic identities juxtaposed in a “defen - mer Separatist Cabinet Ministers had those of the whole world.” veau. Without them, Canada would not sive nationalism.” signed petitions in the 50’s for a French But the damage had been done. Joyal be what it is today. Québec has been at the Nonetheless, Trudeau le Canada with war criminal to be allowed to remain in notes that Saturday as a turning point in same time the inspiration and motive an entrenched Monarchy in the revised Quebec. But the provincial Liberals were public opinion, one which “elevated to force for the profound transformation Constitution, a subject that would de - prepared to join Bou chard’s National As - high import the symbolic presence of which gave birth to this decision.” mand unanimous federal and provincial sembly motion calling on Roux to resign. a foreign stranger who was not only e Senator’s essay links this fraught legislative authorization if “la charge de Soon aer Bou chard proposed to the opposed to the interests of French Cana - moment to the another “profound trans - Reine” were ever to be changed. And Assembly the abolition of the Vice-Regal dians, but also the cause of troubles and formation” – this being the changes while stating he would never lose a mo - continued on page 14 ment’s sleep over the matter, at the same time “he concurred with the opinion of a large majority of his fellow citizens, who, without openly calling themselves monar - chists, realized that the Canadian system of governance fonctionne démocratique - ment, et qu’il a permis le développement d’une société parmi les plus libres au monde.” By 1987, with the fires of Separatism apparently banked, a more confident Pre - mier Bourassa was happy to welcome e Queen, “representing the great majority of Quebeckers... Dans la mésure que les Québecois acceptent la constitution, la Jean-Louis Roux: “calculated bitterness” of sep - Together off British soil for the first time, the Royal Family enjoyed supporting the equestrienne reine est la reine du Canada. C’est normal aratists over outspoken federalist’s appointment Princess Anne during the 1976 Olympics in Montreal and Bromont, QC qu’elle visite l’ensemble du territoire, dont as Quebec Lieutenant Governor.

Les Nouvelles monarchiques du Canada – printemps 2 016 – 11 LEAGUE NOTES – BABILLARD DE LA LIGUE

ELIZABETH HORLOCK and the Duke of York. Elizabeth’s life of CHAIRMAN FINCH VISITS tion de notre organi - 191 4-2 01 5 self-giving service leaves a memory and CALGARY & EDMONTON sateur dans la belle example for us all. Indeed, the hymnist Dominion Chairman Robert Finch province, Francois might have imagined her when she wrote made a flying visit to Alberta in Septem - Marquette , étudiant à of the saints: ey loved their Lord so ber. He began by meeting Calgary mem - l’Université de Mont - dear, so dear,/And His love made them bers and welcoming the Branch’s new réal, un agent à temps strong;/ And they followed the right for Chairman, Josh Traptow. Proceeding to partiel d’Agence des Jesus’ sake/ e whole of their good lives Edmonton, Chairman Bob addressed a services frontaliers du long. For Elizabeth, these were not words, League Luncheon in the presence of eir Canada et un jeune but truth, the bedrock of her long and Honours Lois Mitchell, Lieutenant Gov - militant bien connu Francois Marquette, useful life. RIP. JLA crnor, and Hon Col Douglas Mitchell, or - dans la ville. Il a passé nouveau chef de la l’été 2014 comme un ganized by Branch Chairman Mary Hunt; Ligue en Québec JOHN BALLINGAL WILKES spoke at a Military Dinner in the evening guide à Rideau Hall! Past Halifax Chairman Elizabeth Horlock 1922- 201 5 and joined with the Royal Common - (right) with Pictou Co Chairman Olive Pastor wealth Society in planting a tree to hon - BRADSHAW TO PREPARE and Halifax Chairman Scott Burke aer receiv - our e Queen’s historic reign in an VALUE OF CANADIAN CROWN: ing their Golden Jubilee Medals from the Lieu - eponymous park. 5th EDITION tenant Governor of Nova Scotia at Government Preparations are beginning for the is - House, 2002. BC LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR suance of the League’s 5th triennal report Elizabeth Horlock was a long-serving PRESENTS LEAGUE BADGES on a much-misunderstood subject – the Halifax Branch Chairman of the League, OF SERVICE actual cost of the Canadian Crown. Many which honoured her with its Silver Badge Her Honour Mrs Guichon presented in this country imagine millions of dollars of Service, and whose loyalty to the six League volunteers with their Badges of being “sent to Britain” to maintain Royal rone was deeply embedded in the same Service at a ceremony at Government Palaces, and other such nonsense. e determined and faithful mien as her faith. House on August 27th. Victoria Branch new report, once again researched by Born into a clerical family in Somerset, co-Chairman Bruce Hallsor received an Torontonian Jonathan Bradshaw , will John Wilkes (right) receiving a Life Membership again supply complete information on the her work at Dalhousie University in in the Royal Canadian Heraldic Society. extremely rare distinction: the Gold teach ing English as a second language Badge – of which there can be no more topic, with a focus on the value Canadians brought her to befriend (and oen to John Wilkes was one of Canada’s pre - than ten living holders at any time. Silver receive for a very small cost. house) countless students from varied mier heraldists, and instrumental in en - Badges were conferred upon Acting Van - lands. is was as much part of her voca - couraging the patriation and growth of couver Chairman Greg Blue, QC, and SECOND SILENT AUCTION tion as her Anglican faith, her engage - Canadian Heraldry through his work on four Victoria members: Lady Chatfield; HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL ment in Trinity and St Paul’s parishes in behalf of the Royal Heraldry Society of long-serving Branch Secretary Valerie e early winter timing did not pre - Halifax and her generosity to missions Canada, which he served on both its Holden; Kenneth Lane; and the retiring vent hot bidding on a variety of items throughout the world. On first meeting Toronto and National executives. Born in Branch co-Chairman Colleen Mills. ranging from the media manuals for a Elizabeth’s demeanour might seem some - Galt, an old boy of e Grove in Lakefield, 1978 Royal Homecoming to a Silver Ju - what austere, but this belied an innately and an engineer by profession, John MP’s IN NEW PARLIAMENT bilee sugar pot, with a great deal of inter - kind heart, which allowed her always to landed in Normandy shortly aer D-Day TO BE OFFERED est also shown for the original printer’s die think of others first, and seek out the best and fought until wounded on the West EDUCATIONAL BOOKLETS for the League’s logo at the time of its in all whom she met. She enjoyed partic - Bank of the Rhine in March, 1945. ere Springtime will find new editions of founding in 1970. Over $1400 was raised ipating in Monarchist activities from the followed a 36-year career with the Ontario the League’s educational booklets printed in support of various programs! Branch’s establishment in 1971 under the Department of Transportation, during in French and English, thanks to the gen - Rowlands and Richard Hand, and in help - which he conceived the idea of a 12-lane erosity of several donors. As is our cus - YOUNG MONARCHISTS NEWS ing to furnish abundant hospitality aer Highway 401 passing through what was tom, they will then be offered to all ON AND OFF CAMPUS branch meetings with her friend Augusta then the North border of Toronto. He fol - Mem bers of Parliament. In the past any - “Gusti” Roulston, as much as she did vis - lowed the work of the League with great where from 50 to 100 MP’s request 25 to iting Lieutenant Governors, and being in - interest and generosity, and attended its many hundreds of copies which they vited to Government House for state events regularly until increasing mobility distribute to students during their consti - dinners to welcome Princess Margaret challenges made it impossible. However, tu ency visits or class trips to their Parlia - with his characteristic wry good humour, mentary offices. Should funds permit, we direct questioning and unfailing hospital - hope to extend this offer to Members of ity, John was always delighted to pour an the provincial legislative as semblies ample glass and entertain the Founder on the screened porch of his comfortable LEAGUE COMMITTEES Ontario Lieutenant Governor Elizabeth Dow- home in Don Mills. He looked forward, FORMED ON OUTREACH, deswell meets University of Toronto student not backwards, and his desk was heaped SOCIAL MEDIA, RECRUITMENT leaders at a lunch-hour reception organized by with project paperwork. It was a blessing Seeking added insight from members the League club on campus. that he found happiness aer the death of to maximize the League’s effectiveness, a his wife Eleanor, when he moved to a Se - An impressive turnout on a holiday number of members’ committees have niors’ facility in Aurora and enjoyed the weekend Saturday found YM’s in a day- been formed in recent months to give support and affection of his partner in life long conference in Toronto on August 1st counsel and present new ideas in a variety Elizabeth. He was a very fine human organized by Ntl YM Chairman Neil of areas. ese groups include outreach to being, erect in carriage, unstinting in Mac alasdair and UofT Chairman Haris the new government; a social media deeply-felt loyalty to Crown and nation, Yaqin , the transportation and meal costs group spearheaded by David Donovan , Elizabeth Horlock at her retirement reception, full of good works, never lacking in hu - made possible by League members’ gen - Andreas Kyriakos and Neil MacAlastair ; with Scott Burke, one of her successors. mour. RIP. JLA erous gis. Students from five campuses and a recruitment group chaired by Win - got to know one another as they discussed nipeg member Dan Guenther . e social recruiting strategies, programming and RECRUITMENT CAMPAIGN IN SPRING media group has already sought the ex - handling monarchical issues – and shared pert advice of a League member who their own experiences as promoters of the It is not unnatural that over the recent decade for some monarchists, large and offered his professional services. Addi - cause... e excellent organizing of Car - small “m,” might feel complacent when so many positive developments added tionally, Neil has begun to experiment leton University students Jonathan Banks strength to the Canadian Crown – whether symbolic as in the return of the with targeted advertising on Facebook, and Ben Savage has brought new life and “Royal” designation to Canada’s Air Force and Navy; substantive, such as the ed - with over 20,000 views reported for the ucational booklet for new Canadians explaining the roke of the Monarchy; or first such insertion. popular, in the celebration of Royal Jubilees and the success of Canadian visits by members of the Royal Family. Chairman Finch felt that now was a good time NOUVELLE ÉQUIPE to rebuild membership and seek new support in an organized way. Pending the DE LA LIGUE EN ideas to be generated by the new Recruitment Committee, an obvious approach LA BELLE PROVINCE harkens back to the first decade of the League, and to the presumed support of Notre ami Étienne Boisvert reste tou - existing supporters. So in late Spring or early Summer we will be mailing all jours notre porte-parole principal au members two copies of recruiting materials, and asking that each enrol at least Québec: nous le félicitons de son récent two new supporters. We count on our loyal friends to bring new energy and mariage, et la prochaine naissance du pre - talents to the League in this way. ank you in advance for your efforts! mier enfant du couple heureux! Dans le University of Toronto monarchists meet with même temps nous annonçons la nomina - former Ontario LG David Onley

12 – Canadian Monarchist News – Spring 2 016 university to tend to unwell family members in Eastern Russia... Jane Harris-Zovan , of Leth - bridge, AB, who day in day out finds inter - esting materials for posting on Twitter and A generous League member, impressed by the Facebook, two of the Young Monarchists at University of Toronto, made it possible for them to dine together at a League’s social media private dining room shortly before Christmas. Cian Horrobin outlets... Inveterate speaks to audiences Royal collectors Kevin imaginative programming to the League’s throughout central Dark and Norman Mc - campus club in Ottawa... Meanwhile, Ontario – depicted Mullen who use their Haris Yaqin and Felix Burns organized a here addressing the incredible assortment visit by U Toronto members to former AGM of the Simcoe of ephemera to excite County Association. Celebrating a significant birthday and a long and happy marriage, Windsor, ON, member and League Ontario Lieutenant Governor David interest in the Cana - benefactor Dick Robarts treated his wife Donalda to a London Trip where, due to the kindness of the Onley , who reflected on his time serving dian Crown, celebrating e Queen’s 90th Canadian High Commissioner, they had the privilege of attending Trooping the Colour! e Queen and his continuing work deal - this year by displaying and speaking to ing with mobility issues. e Club groups in Richmond Hill and Markham... brought current LG Elizabeth Dowdes - Byron omas , of Georgetown, ON. When well to campus in the Spring to meet a none of our usual spokesmen were avail - vartiety of student leaders over a sand - able, this long-time member and benefactor wich lunch... Daniel Kashepava is begin - very kindly appeared on behalf of the ning efforts to assemble a joint campus League on CTV’s News Channel. Our club at Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier Uni - focus is not normally on Royal Baby names versities... – but Byron handled the subject with dig - nity and insight, for which we are most Members of the Winnipeg Branch held a baby NEW WEBSITE DESIGN grateful. You can watch him at www. shower for charity in May to celebrate Princess Aer many frustrating months, the re- ctvnews.ca/video?playlistId=1.2307048... Some of the attendees at Halifax Branch Dinner Charlotte’s birth. in June. designed League website, with substan - bravo!... Cian Horrobin generously gives Charlotte’s birth, and was tially revised content came online last of his limited free time to address audiences League’s Branch in Peterborough/Victoria happy to receive a card February at www.monarchist.ca – huge throughout SW/Central Ontario which County ... To the Northwest of Toronto, of thanks from the Duke thanks to Sebastian, Neil and Borden. have asked for a League speaker. His in - League members will soon be greeting and Duchess of Cam - ere were of course be glitches and er - formed remarks inevitably make friends long-serving vice-regal aide Peter Aylan- bridge... Barry MacKen - rors to be dealt with and further changes for the League and converts to the cause. Parker . Peter recently moved to take up zie has passed the torch as recommended by the very helpful ob - Huge thanks, Cian. new employment in Owen Sound, and of New Brunswick servations of the YM’s who tested the beta kindly volunteered to initiate a Grey- Branch leadership to version. We are assembling a team of vol - FROM THE BRANCHES Bruce County branch of the League... In Capt Nik Kaempffer , but unteer translators to bring the new con - Long-time member Josh Traptow took what she describ ed as “a labour of love,” will remain the League’s tent and greater linguistic accuracy to the over the Calgary Branch in the Fall... e Barry MacKenzie: tireless Kings ton Branch Chairman Mar - steps down as NB senior spokesman in the French site. Is it perfect? of course not! three League Branches in Alberta were lene McCracken distributed no less than Atlantic provinces... In - But with an enormous amount of oen- each graciously invited by the Lieutenant Branch Chairman 27 pictures of e Queen from the estate while retaining defatigable Victoria frustrating work and long hours, the Governor to send representatives to a spe - of the late John Chard, who had made a Atlantic provinces Branch Secretary Valerie League has achieved a good result for a cial Magna Carra evening hosted by the lifelong vocation of presenting these lithos role. Holden reports success fraction of the amount which professional Legislative Assembly... January 27 found to bodies where they would be hang in in the branch’s efforts to recruit new mem - firms would have charged – $25,000 and the Greater Toronto Branch enjoying a public. e Branch held an Indoor Picnic bers; she organized the sale of the historic more. We hope it will meet your approval reflection on Citizenship and the Oath to in April to celebrate the Queen’s 89th reign postage stamps held by the League’s as we remember it is our most significant e Queen by Lt Cmdr Albert Wong , who birthday and as a fundraiser (much-ap - Dominion Office to members who were outreach and source of new members. is both Chief Aide-de-Camp to the Lieu - preciated) for the Dominion League... e disappointed when local postal outlets tenant Governor of Ontario and a Citi - Barrie-Huronia Branch welcomed Princess ran dry... Canada Day celebrations Newly SPECIAL THANKS TO zenship Judge. In fact, Albert had to deal appointed Branch co-Chairman Monique Brendon Bedford, of with the controversial case of a would-be Goffinet-Milker emceed the City’s Historic Kitchener, ON, who Canadian who denounced the Oath to Reign celebrations on September 9th which designed the League’s the Sovereign before he took it!... Dalton also found Oak Bay commemorating the popular new bilingual Sanderson was recently named co-Chair - event in an even ing ceremony. e Branch flyer... Anton Abaev , of man to work with Jonathan Brickwood ... provided an elaborate printed program Waterloo. ON, who has All thanks to them and Wilson Lau who for the civic anksgiving service at Christ been undertaking manned the League booth at Word on Church Cathedral... In May Her Honour many graphic design the Street... Toronto City Branch held a the Lieutenant Governor attended the projects for the League. Victoria Day Luncheon with former Lieu - Branch’s Queen’s Birthday Tea in Oak One of his most strik - tenant Governor David Onley and guest Bay... Aron Spidle and John Yogis chaired ing was the map pin - speaker Col Gilbert W Taylor of the Tor - Ottawa Branch Chairman Mary de Toro with a very successful Halifax/SW Nova Branch pointing most celebra - onto Scottish Regiment. Members joined dinner in June, complete with pipers and tions for e Queen’s the League family in rejoicing at the mar - guest speaker, e Queen’s Canadian Secretary Kevin MacLeod, CVO, at a party organized to William Nael’s talk about Prince Edward’s historic Reign last riage of their Chairman Judith Watkins celebrate the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of influence on emergent Canada... e Cen - September 9. It formed to long-time League activist Arthur Sir John A Macdonald. “As a man, Macdonald tral/NE Nova Branch organized a turkey Brendon Bedford the front of the pro - McRae ... Hamilton-Niagara members was not even close to perfect, but as a prime dinner by Chairman Olive Pastor to cele - designed the gram for the Dominion will be bidding farewell to Chairman Jeff min ister his accomplishments are unparalleled,” brate Princess Charlotte’s birth, a fund - League’s new League’s celebration in iessen . e League is contemplating said MacLeod. “Sir John was certainly not born raiser for the Aberdeen Hospital Women bilingual flyer, Tor onto. Anton’s ded - separating the two districts to provide with a silver spoon in his mouth and he was not continued on page 15 already in its ication is emphasized easier opportunities for outreach and offered opportunities on silver platters,” he said 2nd printing! as he has continued his events under new leadership... Alex Walsh of the Glasgow-born politician. “Sir John fought League work even while taking a year off is beginning work on reorganizing the battles all his life with conviction and dedica - tion.”

Victoria Branch co-Chairmen Bruce Hallsor Some Monarchist League members from Ot - (le) and Colleen Mills presented Lt Col Jack F LOYALTY TRANSMITTED IN THE CLASSROOM! Monarchist League member John eviot en - tawa, joined by their Branch Chairman Mary Rowe with a Lifetime Membership plaque on courages his grade 5 and 6 students at Trudeau Elementary School in Blainville, Quebec to engage de Toro (in red) attended a Remembrance Day Feb 22 to honour his decades of service and with the Canadian Royal Family. A recent holiday assignment asked the young scholars to watch reception at the RCAF Officers’ Mess, where dedication to the League, which goes back to the HM’s Christmas broadcast and report on how its contents could help them become a better person they were greeted by the new Minister of De - establishment of the Branch under Molly In - and better Canadian. eir résumés were collected and sent to e Queen for her perusal. fence, the Hon Harjit Sajjan. gram some 45 years ago!

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continued from page 11 petual reaction seen in every aspect of the fixed election dates did not in any way system when too much is written, rather post. Although such an act lay outside its public domain, from re-naming St Jean bind the Crown or supersede its preroga - than leaving the operation of state to the powers, the debate “opened the gates to Baptiste Day as the “Fête nationale” to tive powers; yet Russell argues the “deci - players of the moment within the happy every possible argument and prejudice, et removing the Crucifix from above the sion should not go unchallenged” as “it freedom afforded by long-established cus - rêvéla surtout une méconnaissance pro - Speaker’s chair in the National Assembly. completely subverts Parliament’s inten - tom which allows a flexible system, con - fonde de l’institution et de son histoire.” Having achieved control of all institutions tion to prevent snap elections.” at Par - genial to the exigencies of the moment Worse was to come. True, great good of the Province over the last decades, its liament could not do so, and that the and not susceptible of a vain attempt to was accomplished for the Crown during leadership has failed to quit propagating legislation was entirely alien to monarch - provide for every conceivable situation as the highly-successful, active and visible the myth of oppression it created in the ical government as understood in Canada those lovers of nanny’s rule-making ap - role of the Lieutenant Governor during 1960’s, of which opposition to the Mon - is not understood by Russell, as is the parently wish. the ten-year incumbency of Roux’s suc - archy serves as a convenient “catalyseur... clear and dangerous derogation of that To be continued in next issue cessor, Lise ibault – not to mention the de se rallier contre elle pour se convaincre relatively warm welcome given the Prince that their battle, their resistance, remain of Wales and significant crowds hailing essential to affirm their identity... [and to] BY THEIR LAST WILL & TESTAMENT the newly-married Duke & Duchess seek revenge on the English, not omitting of Cambridge, including in both cases e Monarchist League of Canada gratefully remembers those departed members whose bequests to pardon themselves for having shared over the years have assisted to provide for the maintenance of the League’s work across the friend ly public greetings by Premier Jean just as long an allegiance to the Crown.” Dominion of Canada whose Sovereign they faithfully served in life and whose welfare they forgot Charest. But the benefit was ultimately Always prominent in the unforgiving not in death. R.I.P. overwhelmed in a protracted and ugly eye of the media, the Crown will continue scandal over Mme ibault’s allegedly Ronald Roy Anger, Toronto, Ontario James Milton MacDonald, Toronto, Ontario vulnerable in Quebec, Joyal concludes, William Atkinson, Ajax, Ontario Eileen Evelyn Parker, Calgary, Alberta fraudulent accounts and grandiose, self- from the perspective of a society finding serving expenditures which ultimately led Evelyn May Bastow, London, Ontario Alexander Ray Paton, Victoria, BC great difficulty “in reconciling its history Walter Heslop Bilbrough, Toronto, Ontario Natalie Platner, Markham, Ontario to criminal charges, a protracted legal with a humanist perspective of the con - Ann Elizabeth Jean Brown, Orillia, Ontario Helen Ralston, Toronto, Ontario process and a prison sentence. “Le pres - temporary world,” which attitude serves Kenneth Connolly, Stoney Creek, Ontario Alexander Ray (Sandy) Paton, tige et la crédibilité rattachés à la fonction as “a straightjacket” which may pro vide a Francis William Dollman, Victoria, British Columbia Victoria, British Columbia en souffrirent inevitabilement,” writes feeling of security for the moment, but William Vernon Goodfellow, Hamilton, Ontario Daniel Edward Sage, Corbeil, Ontario Joyal in a masterpiece of understatement. “which precludes its finding another Ronald Powell Graham, Hamilton, Ontario Erik Searight, Burnaby, BC us ibault’s gentle, kind and loyal suc - foundation to their sense of self-worth.” Reginald Gordon Harris, Kelowna, British Columbia Grace Smith, Toronto, Ontario cessor Pierre Duchesne understandably Such acute insights, analysis both histori - Isabel Louise Hill, Fredericton, New Brunswick John Middleton Sturgess, London, Ontario Lois Humphrey, Kingston, Ontario Murray W. Waterman, Calgary, Alberta felt he could occupy the post with great cal and contemporary and elegance of dignity but a limited public presence. Ruth MacKay Kennedy, Halifax, Nova Scotia Alison Watson, Regina, Saskatchewan expression from a thoughtful, troubled Keith Boyd Lindsay, Hamilton, Ontario Elsie Wight, Ottawa & Toronto, Ontario In 2012, Separatist Premier Pauline Monarchist make Joyal’s essay essential Marois, far more vindictive in her public reading for anyone willing to confront the attacks on the Monarchy than Bouchard, central weakness in the Canadian Mon - A Letter to the Members of the took advantage of the legal proceedings archy today. Monarchist League of Canada about your will against Mme ibault to propose the po - In a brief transcription of a discussion from Dr Roy Eappen, Life Member and Benefactor sition of Lieutenant Governor be abol - of media treatment of the Monarchy, ished or at least chosen by the National Phillip Crawley and John Fraser point out As a fellow member of the Monarchist Assembly. is latter notion was with - the lack of deference to Royal subject League of Canada for over 30 years, I am writ - drawn as she realized that it would in fact matter, a sea change from yesteryear, and ing to ask that you consider making a bequest legitimize the office. e Premier had the disjunct between the CBC’s role as to the League in your will. ough always a made the Monarchy an issue in the 2012 national broadcaster and its problematic deeply-personal decision, how we dispose of election, which she won narrowly, spitting attitude towards the Crown. e CBC, our belongings can enable us to continue sup - port for loved ones and causes important to that she “would trade him [PM Harper] opines Fraser, sees the Crown as an insti - the royalty for Quebec sovereignty.” A us. tution in decline, whereas CTV follows For many, our normal expenses do not per - more hypocritical Separatist mischief pre - the public mood. us William and Kate’s sented itself when the Que bec govern - mit supporting the League beyond modest triumphant visit to Canada in 2011 was dues and the occasional small donation. But ment, at first via a barely-concealed proxy treated by the CBC as “a visit from a for - the value of our home, stock portfolio or Pictured here with the Canadian Gi to e (no less than the spouse of one of its Cab - eign head of state” while CTV accurately other assets may permit us to make a more Queen presented at the Government’s Dinner inet Ministers) and then in its own behalf caught the mood. substantial gi via our wills. marking the conclusion of HM’s 2010 Homecom - took court action to attack Ottawa’s pas - Toronto academic Peter Russell writes Over the years, bequests have ranged from ing, Dr Roy Eappen encourages Monarchist sage of a Bill to amend the Succession to a few thousand dollars to one estate which in - League members to join him in remembering its about “Educating Canadians on the needs in their Wills. the rone in order to abolish both the Crown,” and cites a number of disturbing cluded an emerald seal ring whose prove - nance was traced to an early Shah of Persia, way. Its history shows a clear record of con - unique prejudice against the heir’s marry - examples of how little is really understood ing a Catholic, and the preference given and which we sold at auction in London for tinuous achievement in doing exactly these about the Monarchy’s constitutional func - £27,000! Common stock, insurance policies things as the only organization whose sole to male heirs rather than heirs in birth tions. However, he trespasses on his own order. and remainder trusts as well as cash and purpose is advocacy for our Monarchy. shaky ground by advocating writing down residues of estates: all forms of bequest are I know that the current popularity of the In an eloquent, stern and not hopeful constitutional conventions in a “Cabinet welcome! Canadian Crown and many of the recent suc - consideration of the present and future Manual” (which of course has no legal au - e impact of such bequests has, for instance, cesses of League campaigns have come about status of the Monarchy in Quebec, Joyal thority). He dwells on a recent tendency enabled the League to be the first loyal society in no small measure because of the vision of underscores that it is not only in Quebec by Parliament and some legislatures to to establish a website, and then to make that 1970, when a small band of monarchists came where all Canada’s traditional institutions prescribe fixed election dates, criticizing most important outreach bilingual and flexi - together in common cause. And I feel abso - have come into question: “Des Canadiens the ability of a first minister to override ble; to print and distribute over 36,000 copies lute confidence that the vigour of those early of our educational booklet; to initiate and days coupled with 42 years of achievement de partout au pays se retrouvent de nos the legislation by obtaining an earlier dis - jours dans ce mouvement d’arrachement support activities across Canada and to en - will continue to characterize the spirit of the solution from the Gov ernor General or gage frequently with decision-makers in Ot - League. at good work, and the continuance au passé et à la tradition qui caracterise la Lieutenant Gover nor. A 2009 ruling of modernité. And the Monarchy is part of tawa. Nor are these funds wasted on fancy of the Maple Crown, mean a great deal to me. Justice Shore, of the Federal Court, upheld offices or expensive consultancies: our “con - Accordingly, I have made provision for the these symbols from which folk distance this right in respect of Mr Harper’s ob - sultants” are in-house, our computers and League in my own will, and re spectfully invite themselves, an institution which never - taining a dissolution in 2008. It had al - blackberries serve as receptionists; success via you in this Diamond Jubilee year of our theless had been viewed for centuries by ways been clear that legislation relating to loyalty and volunteer spirit are our payment. beloved Sovereign to join me in making a be - a majority of Can adians of both languages e League has a clear future vision: to quest as your circumstances permit. as being part of the ineradicable essentials maintain its position as the respected voice of ank you for considering this challenging of their identity.” Joyal comments that rational monarchism to public, elected offi - subject. Chairman Finch would be happy to Canadians of British descent have hardly cials and media; to widen its educational out - advise you in complete confidence as to any shown the same passion to retain symbols reach; to communicate the loyalty of past questions you might have. of their identity. e Bank of Canada, for generations in a thoroughly contemporary example, does not deign to depict on its $20 banknote e Queen by title or iden - Make Sure The Work Goes On! tity, nor wearing Royal insignia. Members who would like to ensure the continuation of the work of the Mon archist League of In Quebec, deracination since the time Canada in the years ahead, so that generations of the future may know the benefits of the Mon- of the Quiet (!) Revolution has been par - archy, are urged to consider the League’s needs in making their wills. A suggested form of be - ticularly acute. Joyal dubs it as one of con - quest, devised by the League’s Honorary Solicitor, is provided below. stant and continuous rupture – “une I give and bequeath (or, in the case of real property: I give, devise and bequeath ) to the Monarch - société des individus sans ancrage,” and of ist League of Canada Incorporated, P.O. Box 1057, Lakeshore West PO, Oakville, Ontario creating myths which portray the French Prof Peter Russell: misunderstands dangers of L6K 0B2, the sum of ______. Canadians as victims, in a process of per - putting constutional conventions in writing.

14 – Canadian Monarchist News – Spring 2 016 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR AND MACLEAN’S ROYAL CORRESPONDENT ADDRESS 2 01 6 ACCESSION LUNCH IN TORONTO No less than 30 university students from throughout Ontario formed a no - table phalanx of enthusiasm at the Febru - ary 2016 Accession Lunch of the League in Toronto. Her Honour the Lieutenant Governor brought greetings from e Queen and presided at the Proclamation and unveiling of the Armorial Bearings of League member Professor Glen Cart - wright of Waterloo. Patricia Treble, famed Royal correspondent of Maclean’s, made trenchant remarks about her experience of Royal reportage in Canada, to the de - light of the crowd. Aidan Slind reported on his summer as the League’s 20th Intern in the Office of the Lieutenant Governor; Carleton University Branch co-Chairman Ben Savage proposed the Loyal Toast; and long-time Hamilton monarchist Loretta Rae offered the Toast to the League. All present joined in a rendition of Happy Birthday/ Bonne Fête, which was videotaped as part of the League’s salute to e Queen’s 90th birthday.

continued from page 13 General to come to the Rideau Hall cele - fervent in her devotion to the Crown, this & Chil dren’s Unit... A card specially de - bration of e Queen’s historic reign as he retired broadcaster and protocol expert is signed for the Greater Vancouver branch, felt his presence was required to assist a philanthropist who created a Legacy Chairman Greg Blue reported, delighted with the various ceremonies the Branch Fund within the Prince Edward Island members when the Duke and Duchess of had fostered back home. However, good Community Foundation to honour eir Cambridge acknowledged the card con - things come to those who do their duty: Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess gratulating them on the birth of Princess it seems entirely appropriate that John of Cambridge with scholarships to pro - Charlotte, and signed by all those who at - subsequently had the honour of being in - vide post-secondary education to Island tended the Branch gathering at the Van - vited to an October 27th Commonwealth high school students. Her benefactions to couver Public Library on 20 June 2015. reception at St James’s Palace, where he the Monarchist League of Canada have TRH the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge met e Queen! Mary with her Badge of Service, His been constant, and no less generous, en - have sent their own special card in response, Honour Frank Lewis not only consented abling the printing of educational mate - containing a message thanking the Branch PEI LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR to do so, but, with Her Honour Mrs rial, outreach by means of a developing members specifically, and a photograph HOSTS LUNCHEON Dorothy Lewis, graciously tendered a social media presence and, this year, the with Princess Charlotte on the reverse TO HONOUR Lunch party for Mary and her guests on holding of municipal ceremonies across side... LEAGUE BENEFACTOR August 24th at Fanningbank, the historic Canada on September 9th to mark the Mary Mills Dunea is a special woman: vice-regal residence where the Fathers of extraordinary longevity of e Queen’s THE LOVE THAT a devoted monarchist, and a principal Confederation met in 1864, and site of reign. An adventurous traveler, generous PAYS THE PRICE bene factor of the League. So it should many Royal sleepovers including our pre - by instinct, loyal by choice, committed to e moving spirit of many of the activ - come as no surprise that her extraordi - sent Queen and Prince Philip in 1959. good works and bearing a merry heart ities of the recently-revived Halifax-SW nary qualities should be recognized in a e Citation read prior to Mary’s being along life’s road, the Monarchist League of Nova Branch of the League is former Dal - no less singular way. When the League “badged” by eir Honours runs as fol - Canada requests that Your Honour pre - housie Law Dean John Yogis, QC. John asked the Lieutenant Governor of PEI lows: sent the Silver Badge of Service to our declined an invitation from the Governor whether he might be willing to present Bi-national in her residence but no less kind and generous friend, MARY MILLS

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Fabriqués de nylon “200 The litho is supplied gratis by the remain blank on denier” par le magasin très connu “ The Flag Shop” Government of Canada – the cost the inside – thus – c’est la taille 24 x 42 po avec oeillets pour per - is for the mailing tube and postage. suitable for Christ - mettre le vol sur un mât de drapeau. SVP CON - mas or Holiday CMN 215 ...... $12 for one, greet ings, and oc - TACTEZ-NOUS à AVANT LA COMMANDE DE each additional litho only $1 up to maximum of 5/tube VÉRIFIER LA DISPONIBILITÉ casional notes. CMN 223 ...... $85 postpaid/port-payé ROYAL GRAB BAG Better-quality en - LEAGUE PIN/BROCHE DE LA LIGUE ...... for Canadian addresses Various items such as books and souvenirs, either velope included. Available in English or French for members, as illus - donated to the League or remaining in too small trated below MC 186 Table/Mantelpiece Flag with base CMN 189 REDUCED TO CLEAR quantities to advertise separately. Limited Supply ...... $12.50 each ...... 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MAIL ORDERS TO: How Item D e s c rip t i o n Price TOTAL many number each P.O. Box 1057, Name ______Lakeshore West PO, Oakville, ON, ______Canada L6K 0B2 Address ______Specify number and quantity of each item ______• Include postage • Enclose cheque ______or money order Add postage, packaging and insurance as follows: • All prices include Postage 25% of your order, min. $4.00, max. $25.00 & handling Prov. ______the HST USA $15.00 extra – Overseas $30.00 extra Exception: Please note that if you are ordering 186 (table flag), its shape requires us to TOTAL use Canada Post parcel services, and the charge for packaging and shipping is the ENCLOSED Postal Code ______greater of $7.50 or 20% of your order.

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