King Charles of Canada just 18 months away? - Page 15

kwoldtimer · #**281** Posted **Jan 13, 2020, 3:42 PM**

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The Windsors can sort out their family issues themselves but boy does the talk of making Harry our GG or even King or whatever make Canada look even less like a serious or "real" country.

I mean he has no deep ties to Canada except that he vacations here and his American wife shot a TV show in Toronto due to generous tax credits.

I have visited lots of countries, liked most of them a lot and built relations with many people in them but I doubt this makes me suitable as a head of state for any of them. Even as a figurehead. As well intentioned as I might be.

Just another case of Canada desperate for the big time, pining for a place in the pages of Hello! magazine.

I just returned from a somewhat extended period abroad and reading shit like this really hammers home how Canada is the land where there is no "there" there. It is so very striking how non-descript and of little consequence most things like this are seen to be and as a result end up being just that , to the point that the position of head of state - even symbolic - can be auctioned off in a flurry of celebrity-chasing fervour.

Surely the “there” is the fact that the nation can contemplate an immigrant as a candidate for the highest office in the land. Not many nations can say this. We are a beacon of hope and love! One weeps with joy at the profound beauty and humanity of such a people!

Acajack · #**282** Posted **Jan 13, 2020, 3:48 PM**

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Surely the “there” is the fact that the nation can contemplate an immigrant as a candidate for the highest office in the land. Not many nations can say this. We are a beacon of hope and love! One weeps with joy at the profound beauty and humanity of such a people!

Then why not Greta Thunberg? Or Julian Assange? Or Kanye West?

MonctonRad · #**283** Posted **Jan 13, 2020, 3:50 PM**

It should be remembered that Queen Victoria's father Prince Edward spent most of the 1790s in Canada, and made some notable contributions to Halifax, including commissioning, designing and building the town clock (still extant on the side of Citadel Hill) and, he also had quite an estate built on the Bedford Basin, with one building on the estate still extant (Prince's Lodge), highly visible from the Bedford Highway. He was a paragon of the local social scene at the time, and kept a high profile mistress in the colonial town.

Maybe Harry could do something similar (sans the mistress of course).

MonctonRad · #**284** Posted **Jan 13, 2020, 3:51 PM**

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Then why not Greta Thunberg? Or Julian Assange? Or Kanye West?

Acajack · #**285** Posted **Jan 13, 2020, 4:35 PM**

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It should be remembered that Queen Victoria's father Prince Edward spent most of the 1790s in Canada, and made some notable contributions to Halifax, including commissioning, designing and building the town clock (still extant on the side of Citadel Hill) and, he also had quite an estate built on the Bedford Basin, with one building on the estate still extant (Prince's Lodge), highly visible from the Bedford Highway. He was a paragon of the local social scene at the time, and kept a high profile mistress in the colonial town.

Maybe Harry could do something similar (sans the mistress of course).

For the record I would look favourably upon Anglo Canada cuddling up to its British heritage a bit more, but I don't really see the Harry and Meghan thing as anything remotely related to a sincere move in that direction.

Acajack · #**286** Posted **Jan 13, 2020, 4:37 PM**

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Khawi Leonard? Jose Bautista?

MonctonRad · #**287** Posted **Jan 13, 2020, 5:25 PM**

Monarchists of the Dominion rejoice!!!

The Queen has agreed that Harry and Meaghan should spend more time in Canada.

The only question now is if they will succumb to the mild climate of the west coast, or will they choose to live in Toronto to be close to Ben & Jessica Mulroney.

VANRIDERFAN · #**288** Posted **Jan 13, 2020, 6:39 PM**

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I mean he has no deep ties to Canada except that he vacations here and his American wife shot a TV show in Toronto due to generous tax credits.

Au contraire mon ami! (I likely "f'd" that up due to not using Google Translate!)

Lt Harry Windsor has spent a couple of fantastic summers in the short grass prairie of SE Alberta enjoying all the exotic locals of CFB Suffield. And topping it all off with the requisite run in with the lasses of "Cowboys" in Calgary!

Acajack · #**289** Posted **Jan 13, 2020, 6:42 PM**

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Au contraire mon ami! (I likely "f'd" that up due to not using Google Translate!)

Google really was your friend in this case. It's fine.

OldDartmouthMark · #**290** Posted **Jan 13, 2020, 7:17 PM**

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Khawi Leonard? Jose Bautista?

Kyle Lowry

OldDartmouthMark · #**291** Posted **Jan 13, 2020, 7:24 PM**

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I just returned from a somewhat extended period abroad and reading shit like this really hammers home how Canada is the land where there is no "there" there. It is so very striking how non-descript and of little consequence most things like this are seen to be and as a result end up being just that , to the point that the position of head of state - even symbolic - can be auctioned off in a flurry of celebrity-chasing fervour.

That's almost a Ron James-level quotable piece... almost. Most enjoyable choice of wording, I must say.

whatnext · #**292** Posted **Jan 13, 2020, 7:28 PM**

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For the record I would look favourably upon Anglo Canada cuddling up to its British heritage a bit more, but I don't really see the Harry and Meghan thing as anything remotely related to a sincere move in that direction.

That is the monarchy's greatest fundtion - a bulwark against America. A differentiator. After all it's written right into our largest province's motto: "Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet - Loyal She Began, Thus She Remains".

Doug · #**293** Posted **Jan 13, 2020, 8:15 PM**

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Au contraire mon ami! (I likely "f'd" that up due to not using Google Translate!)

Lt Harry Windsor has spent a couple of fantastic summers in the short grass prairie of SE Alberta enjoying all the exotic locals of CFB Suffield. And topping it all off with the requisite run in with the lasses of "Cowboys" in Calgary!

His great, great uncle, Edward XIII, lived off and on south of Calgary for more than two decades.

Acajack · #**294** Posted **Jan 13, 2020, 8:18 PM**

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That's almost a Ron James-level quotable piece... almost. Most enjoyable choice of wording, I must say.

Thanks for the compliment - though I had to look up Ron James!

And this is my second language! You should see what I can do in French!

Proof Sheet · #**295** Posted **Jan 13, 2020, 8:19 PM**

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Monarchists of the Dominion rejoice!!!

The Queen has agreed that Harry and Meaghan should spend more time in Canada.

The only question now is if they will succumb to the mild climate of the west coast, or will they choose to live in Toronto to be close to Ben & Jessica Mulroney.

oh come on.surely Moncton is where they want to live.

someone123 · #**296** Posted **Jan 13, 2020, 8:35 PM**

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oh come on.surely Moncton is where they want to live.

I don't mean to be negative but if you're rich and famous why would you choose to move to Canada instead of live in London? I guess some people like remote wilderness. Living in Ottawa would not really tick that box.

svlt · #**297** Posted **Jan 13, 2020, 8:42 PM**

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I don't mean to be negative but if you're rich and famous why would you choose to move to Canada instead of live in London? I guess some people like remote wilderness. Living in Ottawa would not really tick that box.

Not to mention one half is from LA and the other is from London. It would be exceptionally funny if Victoria was chosen as anything more than a summer vacation destination but there is some smoke to that rumor.

Toronto is probably their only reasonable choice to have any sort of impact on the country rather than being celebrities for the sake of being celebrities.

Acajack · #**298** Posted **Jan 13, 2020, 8:42 PM**

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I don't mean to be negative but if you're rich and famous why would you choose to move to Canada instead of live in London? I guess some people like remote wilderness. Living in Ottawa would not really tick that box.

Stepping out of the limelight? A bit. But not too much.

The British press can be totally insane when it comes to hounding the Royals.

Acajack · #**299** Posted **Jan 13, 2020, 8:46 PM**

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Not to mention one half is from LA and the other is from London. It would be exceptionally funny if Victoria was chosen as anything more than a summer vacation destination but there is some smoke to that rumor.

Toronto is probably their only reasonable choice to have any sort of impact on the country rather than being celebrities for the sake of being celebrities.

Who says they want to have an impact on the country, though? I think that's just certain Canadians' starry-eyed wishful thinking as opposed to something this couple has ever thought about.

Anyway, in the extremely extremely unlikely event that they were to move to Canada to occupy some sort of symbolic governmental or monarchical function, they'd obviously move to Ottawa, not Toronto.

someone123 · #**300** Posted **Jan 13, 2020, 9:04 PM**

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Stepping out of the limelight? A bit. But not too much.

I wonder if it would be worse in a smaller city. London is full of celebrities and billionaires and so it must have lots of private institutions and events designed to exclude the media and the public. Or at least there are a lot of different billionaire compounds you could visit.

Either way many wealthy people don't have a clearly defined place of residence.