The time is long past to abolish Canada’s link to the British monarchy. The Canadian political establishment has been obsequious to empire when it comes to denying justice for Julian Assange, and the state/corporate media in Canada has been equally servile to empire. He has had to endure all this punishment for the crime of publishing the commission of war crimes for which the kangaroo court in Britain agreed to extradite him to the United States, a country that had planned to murder him instead he is being subjected to a a slow motion assassination in Elizabeth’s realm. Is it not perversely ironic that the war criminal Blair who helped launch the invasion of Iraq that killed so many people is knighted while the man whose organization, WikiLeaks, that revealed the war crimes committed in Iraq and Britain’s role in the commission of those crimes, languishes as a political prisoner in a maximum security facility in England? Assange has been undergoing psychological torture, incarceration, defamation, and recently he suffered a stroke. Whether it is 2.4 million deaths, half of that, or a quarter of that, whatever the actual number is, the queen’s actions indicate that it is ostensibly a price worth bringing one of the war’s scoundrels into the queen’s inner circle. Just how much blood is on Blair’s hands? One “ catastrophic estimate” cited a figure of 2.4 million Iraqi deaths subsequent to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Yet Canada finds itself in the position of having its head-of-state honoring a war criminal. He pleaded with his queen: “Tonight I find myself in the unusual position of beseeching her majesty the queen to turn back from a disastrous error of judgement which she has made.”Ĭanada does not even permit knighthood for Canadian citizens. George Galloway was flummoxed by the queen’s decision. The BBC explains, “The appointments are the personal choice of the Queen, who has up to 24 ‘knight and lady companions’.”
On 1 January, Blair became a member of the Order of the Garter, England’s oldest and most senior order of chivalry. Nonetheless, Elizabeth decided to grant knighthood to the war criminal Tony Blair. Former UN secretary general Boutros Boutros-Ghali concurred on the illegality of the war.
UN secretary general Kofi Annan called the invasion illegal. For instance, Elizabeth blessed the dispatch of British troops to wage war against Iraq, a war that Canada refused to send its troops to join, especially since Canadian citizens were much opposed to the war. Canada’s foreign policy does at times deviate from that of the United Kingdom. However, despite sharing a titular head with another country, it is unsurprising that those countries would occasionally differ on foreign policy objectives. Usually a sovereign country would like its head-of-state to align with the foreign policy of the country. Our objective is to continue until there is not a single Indian in Canada that has not been absorbed into the body politic and there is no Indian question…”Įlizabeth has never apologized for the monarchy’s role in the Anglican church-run residential schools in Canada. As the Canadian civil servant in charge, Duncan Campbell Scott, stated: “I want to get rid of the Indian problem…. That is the same church that ran so many Indian Residential Schools in Canada that sought to disappear Indigenous kids. The monarch is the supreme governor of the Anglican church. Third, atheists, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Roman Catholics, etc need not apply. It is determined by birth order in one family. Second, the monarchy is thoroughly undemocratic. First, under this constitutional arrangement, Canada has no say as to who its head-of-state will be. Having a foreign head-of-state has ramifications for Canada.
That elitist, colonial vestige remains intact in the year 2022. Queen Elizabeth is Canada’s head-of-state. Many will ask, “Isn’t prime minister Justin Trudeau Canada’s head-of-state?” No, he isn’t. George Galloway, former British MP and the director of The Killing$ of Tony BlairĬanada’s head of state, also the queen of Canada, has made the war criminal Tony Blair a “Sir.”
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The only place I want to hear him speak is in the dock at the Hague at the International Criminal Court facing trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Share on WhatsApp Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Telegram Share on Reddit Share on Email
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