Several decades ago Queen Elizabeth visited Victoria.

I lived on Texada at that time, so traveled to Victoria to tell the Queen what I thought about her relationship with Canada.

I carried a sign that stated CONSTITUTION YES…MONARCHY NO.

Canada is a Constitutional Monarchy. This means that every person in Canada, with the exception of First Nations are subjects of the Queen or King. That is why the queen’s face in on the Canadian money.

As far as governance is concerned, every elected official in Canada, every employee of the cities, provinces or the country are servants of the Queen or King.

The most powerful person in Canada is the Governor General, the most powerful person in any province is the Lt. Governor.

You might elect a Prime Minister, MLA, MP, Mayor, Regional District Rep., etc, but they are only servants that administer on behalf of the Crown to make decisions on behalf of her subjects…you.

This is the reason that people are protesting now about the suspension of the Federal Government’s deliberations by elected officials.

The PM visited the Governor General,(two times recently) and requested a suspension of voting by MP’s to avoid a non-confidence vote by your elected MP’s.

My question to you on Texada and the Canadian people is; are you willing to continue to be subjects of the Crown, or are you interested in a grass roots movement to create a non-violent revolution to become a Republic?

In a Republic, you are the foundation of making decisions from the bottom up instead of the top down situation that currently exists. The Canadian People can decide their future instead of that future being imposed from England by a woman, and her family, that has no idea what it is like to work to make a living.

A movement exists in Australia, New Zealand, Scotland, Ireland and England to rid ourselves of this old fashioned concept of a continuation of the feudal system that most subjects do not understand.

For many years, there existed in your region a movement to hold the B.C. government and B.C. Hydro accountable for the decision to build the Cheekye-Dunsmuir twin 500 KV power lines to Vancouver Island.

In the end, public input into the justification to tax the public 2 Billion dollars and impact communities and nature throughout the syestem were ignored. Why? Because the public right to question and offer input into this massive system could be ignored. B.C. Hydro is a Crown Corporation. Everyone working there is a servant of the Queen working on behalf of you her subjects.

The Crown can make decisions that you cannot change or question.

How long are you willing to be subjects?