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Toronto, ON - October 30, 2009 - On
the eve of the Canadian public relations campaign to
raise Prince Charles’ low popularity, Canada’s
republican movement is asking the following:
● It
costs about a million dollars a day to host the Queen.
The visit by the heir to the throne and his wife may
cost nearly the same. Normally, family members of host
and visiting heads of state pay their own way. Why,
especially in this era of recessionary restraint, are
Canadian taxpayers expected to pay the cost of hosting
visiting siblings, children and daughters-in-law of one
of the wealthiest heads of state in the world?
● As
proof of the monarchy’s threat to national unity,
protests by Québec separatists are planned in response
to the Prince’s stops in Gatineau and Montreal. Why is
the federal government allowing these unnecessary
incursions, which most certainly will incite otherwise
dormant extremists?
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Following yet another in a succession of public opinion
polls showing the majority of Canadians firmly against
the continuation of the British monarchy, including 70
percent of those under the age of 40, why is Canada the
lone holdout among developed, overseas Commonwealth
nations without a parliamentary debate on the head of
state?
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