Queen Not Welcome at Quebec City's Birthday Bash (Canadian Press)
From Canadian Press (via The Montreal Gazette):
April 13, 2007 - Queen Elizabeth is not welcome at the 400th birthday bash of Quebec’s capital city, say separatists.
The British monarch’s name was put forth by Ottawa for a list of potential guests to be invited to the celebrations next year (July 3, 2008).
But Gerald Larose, president of a provincial sovereignty group, said her presence would be totally unacceptable.
He called the Queen a symbol of British colonialism and he said Quebecers will not tolerate being taunted like that.
“It’s totally unpalatable for the British queen to bring her rich butt (over here) to celebrate the birth of the Quebec nation,” Larose said Friday.
It’s illogical to invite the British head of state to celebrate a milestone of New France, he said.
“More and more in Quebec we are getting rid of symbols of the imperialist monarch of England, which has systematically assimilated … Francophones all over Canada,” Beaulieu said.
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=5d772ac9-fa51-4429-ab29-a7250f6917e4&k=3299
April 13, 2007 - Queen Elizabeth is not welcome at the 400th birthday bash of Quebec’s capital city, say separatists.
The British monarch’s name was put forth by Ottawa for a list of potential guests to be invited to the celebrations next year (July 3, 2008).
But Gerald Larose, president of a provincial sovereignty group, said her presence would be totally unacceptable.
He called the Queen a symbol of British colonialism and he said Quebecers will not tolerate being taunted like that.
“It’s totally unpalatable for the British queen to bring her rich butt (over here) to celebrate the birth of the Quebec nation,” Larose said Friday.
It’s illogical to invite the British head of state to celebrate a milestone of New France, he said.
“More and more in Quebec we are getting rid of symbols of the imperialist monarch of England, which has systematically assimilated … Francophones all over Canada,” Beaulieu said.
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=5d772ac9-fa51-4429-ab29-a7250f6917e4&k=3299
posted by eric model | 2:33 AM
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Elizabeth II is not Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, contrary to the requirement in the Fifth Schedule of the British North America Act, 1867.
According to the British North America Act, 1867, the provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick expressed their desire to be federally united into one Dominion under the Crown of the “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland", not the Crown of the “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland”.
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