I understand that. And I guess I’m not convincing anyone in this thread, but, things like this, and how the article gushes about Elizabeth’s ‘brooch warfare’, I fail to see how these are things that Canadians ought to feel good about or empowered by. They don’t benefit us in any way.
Canada needs allies now probably more than ever in its history. What we see here coming from the monarchy is not a meaningful gesture of alliance. That’s what I’m bitter about. It’s monarchs doing what monarchs do after they’ve squeezed all the benefit from colonial conquest - they bandy meaningless symbols about. That benefits them, because conveniently, it costs them nothing to ‘stay out of politics’.
As a Canadian, it’s truly frightening to see world leaders reluctant to simply say the words ‘we stand behind Canada’.
What does the word ‘Commonwealth’ even mean if the British monarchy can’t say that and mean it.
Yes, planting trees, playing dress up, and giving ceremonial swords will fix this.
I’ll uncross my arms when they do something that makes a material difference.
I’m really surprised by this development. The fact that provinces sat down with Ottawa and agreed on something related to liquor makes me think whatever the proposed plan is, it’s probably not transformative…
Devil is in the details of course, but I’m interested to see what this actually looks like.
This is the first article I’ve seen mention that the plan for interprovincial liquor sales is about direct-to-consumer sales.
It’s a good thing, but I’m not sure how transformative it would be. The cost of shipping would easily exceed the price of beer or wine. Spirits would maybe be the product category that direct-to-consumer sales would make the most sense on. But even a $50 bottle of gin would cost nearly that much to ship from BC to Ontario.