Letters to the editor: ‘King Charles will reign for some time.’ After the Queen, can he preserve the Commonwealth? Plus other letters to the editor for Sept. 19

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Horsing round

Re The Queen Knew Every thing There Was To Know About The Sport Of Kings (Sports activities, Sept. 14): Queen Elizabeth knew horses, however early in her time on the throne, she hadn’t but completely finessed the foundations surrounding racing them.

In 1959, the Jockey Membership fined the Queen the equal of US$140 for withdrawing her horse Above Suspicion from the Champion Stakes at Newmarket (the British racetrack, not the Ontario city) too late, failing to present the membership three days’ discover.

No disrespect to Her Majesty’s reminiscence is supposed by the conveyance of this tidbit. Lengthy dwell the King.

George Olds Hamilton

Frequent considerations

Re Preserving The Commonwealth Could Show Charles’s Hardest Job (Sept. 13): As an Australian presently staying in Canada, I felt compelled to reply about the way forward for the monarchy in my nation.

After 4 years of wrangling concerning the type of republic that might be established, a referendum was held in 1999. The Australian individuals decisively voted in favour of conserving the monarchy. I’ve seen little curiosity, apart from by republican activists, to revisit the difficulty.

There are additionally two well-funded pro-monarchy teams that proceed to say themselves, awaiting any strikes by the brand new Labour authorities, which has said that this subject is just not on its present agenda. (The Liberal-Nationwide Coalition, which has dominated Australia for a lot of the latest previous, had at all times supported the monarchy.)

Success at a referendum requires not solely a majority vote, however a majority in 4 of Australia’s six states, which seems problematic. I consider King Charles will reign for a while in Australia.

George Hitchcock Nanaimo, B.C.

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Re The Queen Was The English World’s First – And Probably Its Final – Skilled Constitutional Monarch (Sept. 15): Given the recital of King Charles’s many egregious departures from the Bagehot excellent of monarchic aloofness from the fray, the potential for his changing into the final British monarch is just not unreal.

Can the King shed the legacy of his prolonged ideological and partisan meanderings;? If not, will Britain tire of a hereditary head? What, then, of the Gov.-Normal as stand-in for the monarch if there may be none?

We can’t low cost such risk. As columnist Doug Saunders writes, “Many will start to marvel why we proceed selecting heads of state this manner.” Ought to this happen, Canada could be a head-of-state-less nation, adrift of its monarchic moorings.

Constitutional limbo could be the value of remaining a satellite tv for pc.

John Edmond Ottawa

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Re Trudeau, Social gathering Leaders Pay Tribute To The Late Monarch (Sept. 16): It appears a bit excessive that the Bloc Québécois left the Home of Commons after the moments of reflection on the legacy of the Queen, utilizing phrases like “thorny and merciless” to explain British dominance.

If the winners on the Battle of the Plains of Abraham had been as hardnosed as had been the Spanish and Portuguese conquerors of South America, there could be no Catholic affect in Canada, nor any French-speaking province.

Maybe the Bloc Chief wants a brand new definition of “thorny and merciless.”

Dave Ashby Toronto

Higher behaviour

Re We Can Steer Politicians Away From Hyper-partisanship (Sept. 13): I discover it a humiliation and a travesty of governance that periods of Parliament recurrently devolve into puerile brouhahas: adversarial, unproductive, hyper-partisan hooliganism. Nearly any citizen can run for workplace and win a seat. There is no such thing as a normal for coaching, expertise or efficiency.

Whether or not or not it’s daycare employees or emergency personnel, we count on that individuals in positions of public belief and repair be adequately skilled and possess the mature behaviour essential to carry out their jobs effectively. We should always cease excluding parliamentarians from that commonsense normal.

Contributor Maxwell Cameron describes a marvellously clever system to coach, help and encourage politicians to be extra collaborative, deliberative and civil within the efficiency of their parliamentary capabilities. Authorities ought to exhibit the political will to enhance the well being and functioning of our democracy.

There needs to be no place for uncivil toxicity.

Jill Kannegiesser Toronto

Unfold the ache

Re Inflation Reduction For Some, At What Price For All? (Report on Enterprise, Sept. 15): Justin Trudeau says that $4.6-billion for low earners received’t exacerbate inflation. A fundamental economics course teaches that including stimulus to an economic system experiencing excessive inflation will make inflation worse.

Canada has an excessive amount of cash bidding for items and providers which might be in brief provide. The Finance Minister lately stated that deficits should cease as they’re inflationary.

I’m deeply disillusioned to see that politics appears to trump logic but once more.

Joel Cohen FCPA, Hamilton

Don’t guess on it

Re As On-line Sports activities Playing Prospers In Canada, Different Nations Are Beginning To Crack Down (Report on Enterprise, Sept. 12): For these of us who maintain no fascination with the appearance of on-line single-event sports activities betting, the surge in associated promoting is as annoying as it’s regarding.

Making playing (“a tax on the poor”) extra accessible appears an unlikely strategy to cut back social hurt. Organized crime will at all times be the lender of final resort. This doesn’t seem like an acceptable strategy to finish its involvement, seeming extra prone to develop its buyer base.

As they’ve found in Britain, we’ll all find yourself paying the value, if authorities can’t look previous the potential for one other income greenback to see the social hurt that playing can do.

Neville Taylor Toronto

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So unhappy that, as Britain strikes to curb the net playing harvest of money from suggestible or susceptible individuals, Canada is huge open to focused promoting.

Is it as a result of provincial governments get a reduce of the distress bounty, maybe? Will Canada not be taught from the errors of Britain and different nations? It might appear so.

“Accountable playing” – an oxymoron.

Mike Firth Toronto

Grand exit

Re Roger Federer Is The Variety Of Tennis Legend Who Turned Sport Into Artwork (Sports activities, Sept. 16): As a lifetime tennis fanatic, I’ve watched, usually in pure wonderment, all the trendy greats. None evaluate to Roger Federer.

My household and I are unhappy to see him depart competitors, however we’re grateful to have been enriched by such a titan for therefore a few years. He’s within the pantheon of all-time best international athletes.

I don’t assume we’ll see his like once more.

Andrew Milner Peterborough, Ont.

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