{"id":5896,"date":"2023-10-24T03:46:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T03:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/changestartsnow.ca\/?post_type=documents&#038;p=5896"},"modified":"2023-10-24T03:46:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T03:46:13","slug":"the-guelph-mercury-monday-january-29-1996-tinker-yes-but-save-the-pieces","status":"publish","type":"documents","link":"https:\/\/changestartsnow.ca\/fr\/documents\/the-guelph-mercury-monday-january-29-1996-tinker-yes-but-save-the-pieces\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guelph Mercury, Monday, January 29, 1996- Tinker, yes, but save the pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Guelph Mercury, Monday, January 29, 1996<br>EDITORIAL\/Pledge of loyalty<br>Tinker, yes, but save the pieces<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>On her first day in office last Friday, Canada&rsquo;s new citizenship minister managed to put herself<br>on the wrong side-the militant side of the Monarchist League of Canada.<br>That&rsquo;s no monumental task, to be sure. Sooner or later it was bound to happen anyway. But<br>did Lucienne Robillard really have to start her new job by suggesting that now&rsquo;s the time to prep the oath of allegiance for major surgery?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Frankly, it is high time to begin edging towards constitutional change of some sort again. But<br>the pledge of allegiance? To suggest at this early stage that the pledge of loyalty to the Queen<br>may have to go is questionable form, at the very least. It is virtually guaranteed to get backs<br>up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The current pledge of loyalty, taken by new Canadians, does not bind anyone to undying<br>support for the House of Windsor (including Di, Fergie and the boys), nor does it suggest some<br>sort of lingering English hold on Canadian loyalties. It is merely a formal way in which people<br>are asked to express respect for those Canadian government institutions without which there<br>would neither be a nation nor a common good. That those institutions still happen to derive<br>their formal authority from the Crown is a matter of both history and current arrangements. It<br>is useful to acknowledge that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>A major overhaul of some or all of those institutions may be long overdue, of course, and it&rsquo;s<br>natural that Ms. Robillard, a Quebecer, should sense this. But if an overhaul is indeed overdue,<br>then let&rsquo;s start by reforming the institutions and the way in which they fit together in a<br>constitutional arrangement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>On this occasion, at least, the Monarchist League has a useful piece of advice: it serves no<br>useful purpose to make substantial changes to the pledge of loyalty until we&rsquo;ve made an<br>irreversible decision to ditch the monarchy and opt for some variation of the republican form<br>of government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>We&rsquo;re a long way yet from making such a decision, and Ms. Robillard has certainly not been<br>appointed to make it on our behalf. But if she feels she must tinker with some of the<br>peripherals, she would be well advised to do it with extreme caution and diplomacy-and to<br>keep all the pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"924\" height=\"1146\" src=\"https:\/\/change_starts_now.storage.googleapis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/24034600\/image-85.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5897\" srcset=\"https:\/\/change_starts_now.storage.googleapis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/24034600\/image-85.png 924w, https:\/\/change_starts_now.storage.googleapis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/24034600\/image-85-403x500.png 403w, https:\/\/change_starts_now.storage.googleapis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/24034600\/image-85-768x953.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 924px) 100vw, 924px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guelph Mercury, Monday, January 29, 1996EDITORIAL\/Pledge of loyaltyTinker, yes, but save the pieces On her first day in office [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5897,"template":"","class_list":["post-5896","documents","type-documents","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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