From: galbrth@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Queen of Canada
Date: 11 Apr 92 16:03:51 -0300
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

jswilson@mta.ca (SCOTT_WILSON) writes

|asaranga@sunee.waterloo.edu (Andrew Sarangan) writes:
|>Some were surprised to find that our largest province is actually French
|>speaking.
|
|Sure our largest province is french.... but the rest of Canada speaks english

You come from New Brunswick and you can be so narrow minded?
No wonder most Qubecers believe this myth...

|it may be big, but land size doesn't count the same as the number of people

Ok. 25% of population... happy?

|>Obviously their argument was based on the observation that our
|>head of state was the queen of England and that we carry her symbol
|>in most of our currency notes.
|
|It is called tradition!!!
|This was a British Colony, we always had the queen on our money... and in
|case you didn't notice most of the big bills now have Canadians on them!

key word hare is `was'

|>I was somewhat insulted when someone remarked that I couldn't possibly be
|>a Canadian since I was a visible minority and clearly not an anglosaxon.
|
|There are lots of ignorant people in the world aren't there... don't take
|to heart what everyone says... obviously they don't know that Canada is one
|of the most culturally diverse countries in the world. But don't judge the
|people on a whole because of a few comments.

I'll try not to judge you...

|>Although the queen has no power and serves only as a symbol
|>for ceremonial purposes if it brings insult to Canadians like me and
|>millions of others who are not of British descent there is little
|>purpose in keeping her in that position.
|
|First of all, the Queen does serve a purpose.  She is responsible for signing
|all the bills.  In Canada we have a governor general, and that person acts
|as an agent to the Queen, who signs bills, etc.
|
|I say bullshi-, if you do not understand that Canada is British based then
|piss off back to Norway or where-ever.  

Well *you* can piss off... 
Andrew is entitled to *feel* the way he doea and *express* it.

|                                        Britain fought many years to secure
|Canada from the French. 

Guess what....  We're still here!
So live with it.  And with the rest of the majority of Canadians who are not
of British descent.
|                         If it insults you're poor little ego then go home
|the Queen is as much as a part of Canada as the beaver and the maple leaf.
|She is OUR queen as well.

You do a good job on stepping on this person's concerns and feelings!
Andrew just said he DOESN'T feel she's his queen.  He's not of Anglosaxon
descent, and has nothing to do with British colonism!

Can't you understand that?

I agree with Andrew.  It's time we took over British `traditions' and replace
them with Canadian ones!

(I may have been rude, but he was rude first)
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