Rethinking monarchs and democracy

For the United Kingdom and those of us in Canada, who are constitutionally connected to the marriage of monarchs and democracy, it is a time for reflection on the validity or the utility of that system.

For the United Kingdom and King Charles III, pictured during a visit to Ottawa in 2017, the issue is how united the kingdom is in the aftermath of the decision to leave the European UnionThe Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY GAR PARDY

September 21, 2022

OTTAWA—The Queen is dead, long live the King! Transition in a democracy with a hereditary monarchy. Smooth and seamless in a chaotic world: the past gives rise to the future in ceremonial splendor. Yet, in the century-old words of the great British poet and author, Rudyard Kipling: while ...

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