As Charles III is crowned Canada’s King, Canadians take stock of their relationship with the monarchy

The results of an Angus Reid Institute survey last month found that slightly more than half of Canadians said they don’t want Canada to continue as a constitutional monarchy, and the same percentage believe that Charles will be a worse monarch than his mother.

The coronation of King Charles, pictured with his wife Camilla, raises questions about Canada's relationship with the monarchy. Canadians are 'not particularly sensitive to who is wearing the crown,' but they do feel an 'incredible amount of antipathy and ambivalence towards it,' says Angus Reid president Shachi Kurl.Creative Commons photograph by Mark Tantrum

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BY CHRISTOPHER GULY

May 4, 2023

Governor General Mary Simon was five years old when Elizabeth II received the crown at an elaborate ceremony in London’s historic Westminster Abbey on June 2, 1953, and became the first sovereign to be separately declared “Queen of Canada.”

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