Canadians Need to Speak Up!
Charles Roach’s ongoing objection to swearing an oath to the Crown aka Her Majesty to be a Canadian citizen lands in the Ontario Court of Appeal today. Roach, a lawyer, is trying to move a class action suit forward to have the swearing of the oath to the Queen declared unconstitutional.
The Trinidad born Roach has waged this battle for many years. Back in 1987 he fought against the oath when the Law Society of Upper Canada required all lawyers to be Canadian citizens and that is part of the swearing in of a new Canadian. He likens asking blacks to swear an oath to the Queen to asking Jews to swear an oath to Hitler.
You’d think that a clown who’d been in the country since 1955 would have learned by now that this country is a constitutional monarchy and the Queen is our head of state. An oath to the Crown is an oath of allegiance. In order to rule the oath unconstitutional is to throw out the constitution itself.
His comparison of an oath to the Queen being like one to Hitler is nothing but pure drama and without basis. The Crown has been a part of many wrongs over the centuries (not all of them being Canadian based) but they have not undertaken the mass extermination of a race of people. While the Crown was involved deeply in the slave trade, they were also amongst the early nations to abolish the trade which allowed Canada to receive those fleeing slavery in the US. Roach needs to get over it!
I always use to look with disdain on Americans and their “this is my America, love it or leave it” attitude as being pure arrogance. As I get older and see more and more evidence of immigrants who come to this country in search of a better life and then demanding that this country conform to their prejudices, I’m beginning to understand that Yankee arrogance. It’s called defence of the homeland.
Thankfully, this doesn’t take in the vast majority of immigrants to Canada. Huge numbers of them come here and embrace what is Canada usually while honouring the best of where they came from. That is multiculturalism at its best. And then there is the likes of Roach. Some how there is an irony to that last name.
My Canada, love it or leave it. Enough already!
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