No. The monarchy is one of Britain’s oldest and most culturally defining institutions.
We need to stop giving away the institutions, culture and identities that define our nation and instead reclaim them.
Abolishing the monarchy would do far more harm than good to the country.
Victoria Day is a time to reflect on Canada’s enduring connection to the Crown and the traditions that shape our history. 👑🍁
We also look ahead to the installation of the 31st Governor General, the Honourable Louise Arbour.
Happy Victoria Day! 🕊️
The the 12th century English chronicler Henry of Huntingdon addressed readers from the year 2135 in his Historia Anglorum?
‘Now I speak to you who will be living in the third millennium, around the 135th year.
…I, who will already be dust by your time, have made mention of you in this book, so long before you are to be born, so that if - as my soul strongly desires - it shall come about that this book comes into your hands, I beg you, in the incomprehensible mercy of God, to pray for me, poor wretch.’
You’ll have a run of 5-6 wrong guesses and think of closing the game then all of a sudden it gives you the most obvious Green candidate you’ve ever seen to keep your morale up. I’m hooked.
“Nei” is the word for no among both Scandinavians and horses. This allows us to reconstruct the existence of a Proto-Scando-Hippic language, or “Old Horse,” spoken 94 million years ago, when the most recent common ancestor of Scandinavians and horses lived.