Canada’s Constitutional Monarchy

Anytime a royal makes an appearance at an event, great public interest in royalty is generated, and with that the monarchy as an institution is brought to the attention of Canadians and the Commonwealth. There is a popular opinion that the monarchy no longer plays, and should no longer play, an important role in contemporary Canada, and with that a view that the monarchy is a useless appropriation of tradition, or even a harmful symbol of oppression, the latter view taken by Marc Chevrier who writes that “the Canadian neomonarchy feeds illusions of false grandeur that have no meaning in America and distract the people from thinking that they can be sovereign.”1 [...]