The visit, which begins Tuesday, will be the 19th trip to Canada for Prince Charles and the fifth for Camilla
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Besides the more serious meetings, the trip involves plenty of pomp and photo ops, including visits to local businesses, ceremonies to celebrate the Jubilee and a viewing of the RCMP musical ride — a performance on horseback. An online poll from Angus Reid released in late April that surveyed a representative sample of 1,607 Canadian adults found that just over half — 51 per cent — felt the country should not remain a monarchy in coming generations, compared with 26 per cent who thought it should.
Finch doesn’t put much stock in the results of polls that suggest Canadians are ready to ditch the monarchy, due in part to the way the questions are framed. “Republicanism is just not, in my view, a winning proposition, and if it were, one of the major political parties in the country would have adopted it,” he said.Article content
Patrick Taillon, a law professor at Université Laval in Quebec City who once challenged the laws of British succession in court, said the visit comes as both Canada and the United Kingdom are preparing for an eventual transition to Charles as king.
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