Charles III will be crowned on May 6, and worldly English Canada comes to life! The duty we thus learned on Monday that the festivities would be numerous to sing the praises of the new sovereign.
In this more monarchist country than is said, which sees in the Crown a tradition distinguishing it from the United States, we get excited, we dress up, we get ready to say with joy “Long live the King!”
Not that English Canadians dream of the monarchy every day, but it is part of their culture.
Monarchy
The least we can say is that it will not be the same in Quebec.
Quebecers do not hate the British monarchy. They just don’t care at all, in the manner of some distant folk reality. They will therefore not celebrate the new king.
Even the lieutenant-governor, supposed to represent the monarchical institution in our country, will not do so. Because once again, it is difficult to organize a party where no one dreams of being invited.
If your birthday is as exciting as a funeral ceremony, don’t have it. Especially if your funeral ceremony (not that of the king or his mother, but of the monarchical institution, we agree!) may one day be welcomed as a birthday.
We saw, however, that the British monarchy still weighed concretely in our political life, when Paul St-Pierre Plamondon had to defy the National Assembly to deliver it from the senseless oath to the king that it imposed on Quebec deputies.
Conquest
More fundamentally, the relationship of domination established at the time of the English Conquest still exists even if it is hidden behind federalism and its constitution, never signed by Quebec, which programs the dissolution of Quebec’s identity and the erasure French.
The coming decades will make it possible to complete this liquidation.
Like what history, even distant, continues to weigh on us, even when we no longer realize it.