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Republicans in Canada hope the high-profile opening of parliament could spark a wider debate about whether the country really should have a distant king at its helm in 2025. | Dave Chan\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\nOn Tuesday, the royals will parade down Wellington Street in Canada\u2019s state landau, drawn by horses of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police\u2019s Musical Ride. They\u2019ll be escorted by 28 RCMPs \u2014 14 in the front, 14 in the back.<\/p>\n
And the official visit will close at the National War Memorial, a monument that was dedicated in 1939 by the king\u2019s grandfather, King George VI. A final royal salute and a flypast by the Royal Canadian Air Force will cap the visit.<\/p>\n
But the pomp and ceremony of Monday\u2019s visit also touches another raw nerve for some Canadians. Canada\u2019s republicans warn there could be dangers for Charles in reminding the Canadian public he is still head of state.<\/p>\n
Republicans in Canada hope the high-profile opening of parliament could spark a wider debate about whether the country really should have a distant king at its helm in 2025. | Dave Chan\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cThe monarchy has been just a settled and relatively uncontroversial part of Canada\u2019s constitution,\u201d Guy Miscampbell, a director at the polling company JL Partners, which has recently measured public opinion in Canada, said. \u201cCompared to Australia, and other countries, republicanism has much less of an appeal there. It\u2019s just something they\u2019ve made a quiet accommodation with as part of their heritage.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yet republicans in Canada hope the high-profile opening of parliament could spark a wider debate about whether the country really should have a distant king at its helm in 2025.<\/p>\n
Demand for media interviews with the campaign group Citizens for a Canadian Republic has been high in recent weeks, its director Tom Freda said. \u201cTo invite King Charles to open parliament, you know, that\u2019s the one that has a lot of us scratching our heads, but we\u2019re going with it. We think it\u2019ll help our cause, and that\u2019s the most important thing,\u201d Freda added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Tuesday, the royals will parade down Wellington Street in Canada\u2019s state landau, drawn by horses of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[186,7709,943,7730,7731,5293,32,393,807,1760,518,2129,38484,5111,1763,7710,519,15,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-124182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-british-royal-family","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-charles","12":"tag-charles-iii","13":"tag-diplomacy","14":"tag-donald-trump","15":"tag-england","16":"tag-keir-starmer","17":"tag-king-charles","18":"tag-king-charles-iii","19":"tag-mark-carney","20":"tag-monarchy","21":"tag-parliament","22":"tag-queen-elizabeth-ii","23":"tag-royal-families","24":"tag-royal-family","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114554972661412375","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}