A MATTER OF PRIDE

"Over the 134 years since the BNA Act, the monarch of the day has filled the role of ceremonial head of state for Canada in a manner that left most Canadians with a sense of pride in their country. What more could you ask from a head of state?" Editorial, The Regina Leader-Post, April 27,2001.

 

TRUST ME...

"The Crown has a long and honourable tradition here in Canada. It has served us well... Canada is a place people chose to come to because of the monarchy, not in spite of it... We are indeed defined by the Crown... One day Charles will be a king Canada will be proud of. Ditto for William. Mark my words." Christina Blizzard, writing in The Sunday Sun, April 29, 2001

 

A GOOD WELCOME

"How wonderful it must have been for the Prince of Wales to visit the Northern Plains Indians of Saskatchewan and receive their highest honours ­ a blanket and a new name, Kisikawpisim Kamiyowahpahmiktoot. For those not fluent in Cree, this means "the sun watches over him in a good way." What a contrast this warm welcome given to Prince Charles makes with the recent treatment of his sister-in-law [the Countess of Wessex] ­ or "The News of the World watches over her in a bad way," as she might be known in Canada." Leader in the Daily Telegraph, May 1, 2001

 

A VISIT FIT FOR A PRINCE

"Who else could have generated such emotions...? And what's wrong with Charles doing it? What is wrong with Canadians being able to claim Charles as, constitutionally, their own?... He lives offshore? He speaks with an accent that is non-standard Canadian? ...millions of Canadians speak with non-standard accents. That he's so 'yesterday'? That he comes out of some hoary tradition? It's called history ­ and monarchy has been a Canadian property for 500 years... Ask the people who've been meeting him, the journalists who've been watching him. Think of the post-modern values he has been talking about. All this added to global celebrity status." Michael Valpy, writing in The Globe and Mail, May 1, 2001

 

THREE CHEERS FOR OUR FUTURE KING!

"So who was this nice, self-deprecating man travelling around Canada over the past week, who charmed everyone he met, who speaks French better than our Prime Minister, who made fans out of the impressionable young and the cynical old, and gave every group he encountered a special sense of what it is like to be royal Canadians with a distinctive history and culture, rather than amorphous Canadians, or indistinguishable Canadians, or boring Canadians?" John Fraser, writing in National Post, May 2, 2001

 

HARD WORKER

"Photographer Christopher Wahl followed the Prince of Wales on his tour and was impressed by his charm, his good manners and self-deprecating humour. Anyone who thinks the future King has it easy is mistaken, says Wahl. 'He wanted to talk to everyone. He works really hard." Brian Hutchinson, writing in Saturday Night Magazine, May 26, 2001.