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Increasing number of Canadians want to reconsider ties to monarchy, survey suggests
(www.winnipegfreepress.com)
this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2023
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Indigenous person here .... the monarchy is a complicated thing in Native Canada
On one hand most of us absolutely hate and despise the idea of a monarchy, kings and queens and all that garbage (personally I would love to see them removed from anything to do with government)
On the other hand, the monarchy is our linchpin on the government where many of our original agreements and treaties start and originate from. Many believe that in doing away with the monarchy ... it would give the government an opportunity to do away with many historic treaties and agreements from the past that were made with the monarch and not with the country. It's a whole legal debate that would be a huge headache for government/Native people/monarchists/anti-monarchists/etc
So in Native Canada ... it's split ... we would love to see the King leave ... but we also don't want to give the government a chance to step away from legal responsibilities. Argue what you want but whenever dramatic changes happen to laws regarding Native people .. historically, it's never been good for us .. and Indigenous Canada knows that by heart now ... we don't trust the Canadian government of any stripe to do anything beneficial for us ... we have to fight for ourselves all the time.