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Pour les anglos républicains, voici notre communiqué:
Let’s wrap him in his own ears and ship him back to England!
«One always goes too far, in the eyes of those who are going nowhere».
-Pierre Falardeau
It is now confirmed. Prince Charles and his once-mistress girlfriend Camilla Parker-Bowles will be visiting Québec between the second and the twelfth of coming November. Already, Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper is walking on sunshine. He believes it will be the perfect occasion to celebrate “the heritage and traditions of which we’re all proud”. The least we can say is that Harper-the-Conservative will take a high drop when he wakes up to reality.
Québecers don’t give a damn about English monarchy. Most want to get rid of such a reactionary and exploitative symbol. They can’t identify in a Foreign Crown whose hands are red with the blood of all the people they submitted through the ages. Harper may claim the opposite, Québecers take no pride in this monarchy. In fact, most despise and hate it. That’s what the Conservative leader and his highly-honorable Royal excellencies will fully understand if they dare put their royal big toes on Québec soil.
The monarchy symbol is grossly non-democratic and parasitic; as such, it is despicable and sickening. In Québec, it is felt even more so. Québec history has been frequently scarred by the British Crown and its aristocracy; what’s more, it still exercises some ascendency on Canada’s political scene, which unfortunately includes Québec’s. Today still, the Crown’s Canadian representatives gleefully participate in all Canadian nation-building operations taking place on Québec soil. Her Supreme Royal Highness’s ludicrous representative in Ottawa, Michaelle Jean, has often wished to reconcile «Canada’s two solitudes», in the obvious goal of definitely crushing any attempt by Québecers to obtain their independence. In precisely this aspect, the British monarchy is the atavistic enemy of Free Québec. And it will be fought against for this reason, this time still and for always.
But that’s not all! In the actual, grim economic environment prevailing in Québec, in which ordinary citizens must work hard to make ends meet, it is properly revolting to evoke a bunch of crowned heads who live the big life –at the People’s expense. It’s already bad enough that monarchy is totally useless, besides parading and showing off its wealth, and tightening even more the bonds that subject Québec to Canada… For us, having to pay and provide a living for our local British Crown parasites is adding insult to injury. During her tenure, Lise Thibault has stolen nearly one million dollars from Québec’s public finances, and will have to face Justice. She is the living proof that business-suited bandits are not the only ones ripping us off. Some other crooks just wheel themselves around, a cardboard crown on their heads, while their secret businesses’s gears roll smoothly…
Some others of those British Crown representatives living in Québec and Canada, even though they’re not forcibly crooks and may not be involved in stealing from public funds, are parasites no less. We support their lush way of life with our hard-earned tax dollars. A few years ago, Michaelle Jean’s predecessor as Governor General, Adrienne Clarkson, caused a commotion when her «subjects» learned about her extensive around-the-world travel, always with the greatest expense possible. That’s what’s really called “living at company’s expense”… except that here, the company has 27 million shareholders, among which 8 million who “can’t sell”!
In the early 2000’s, costs linked to monarchy have doubled in Canada. Canadian and Québecer taxpayers have spent well over 30 M$, in 2002, to support British Crown representatives just to have them parading from one celebration to the other to make us forget imperialism’s crimes. Again, during the year 2002, Canadians and Québecers had to shell out an extra 11 M$ to welcome queen Elizabeth the second, so her fans could celebrate the 50th anniversary of her reign and see her wave at her subjects. How much money will Québecers have to spend this time for prince Charles to uselessly provoke us by his visit?
Historically, British monarchs have avoided Québec like it was plagued. They knew Québec’s citizens were genuine Republicans and abhored this crown which they perceived as responsible of their oppression. In 2002, Elizabeth II cancelled her visit to Québec, to avoid controversy. In 2009, Harper, along with that ever-reigning Queen’s son, seem determined to brave all risks. Perhaps they believe that the actual generation of Québecers and Independence activists will less virulently oppose themselves to their presence on Québec soil now than in the past. They’re in for a big surprise!
Le Réseau de Résistance du Québécois (RRQ) makes the following vow: if the man who is soon destined to England’s throne dares set foot in Québec, we’ll wrap him in his own ears and ship him back home third-class.
Got it?
Patrick Bourgeois
Réseau de Résistance du Québécois