If The duty recognize in an editorial on Elizabeth II’s fame, he readily admits this “We have mixed feelings about his death. We’re stuck between great respect for the person and disgust for the role they held.

Quebecers, adds the daily, are thus paying homage to the character “But hate the fact of still being subject to the Crown,” the British sovereign is de facto King of Canada. A poll released last year found that 75% of Quebecers believe the monarchy has no place in Canada.

the MontrealJournal append also his anti-crown colors which write:

“Quebec has no interest in keeping what’s left of the monarchy. The rest of Canada lives under the illusion that the waves of new immigrants that will populate it within a decade or two will identify with the monarchy. Much luck. In fact, only a democracy based on secular and republican values ​​can build the Quebec and Canada of tomorrow.”

“Saturday of the Cudgel”

While the Queen had a good view of Canada, which she visited twenty-two times during her reign, it must be said, annotation The press, that his relationship with the former colony was not just a fairy tale: “His visits, when not provoking demonstrations, have in particular led to more than one debate about the monarchy in Canada”. The newspaper particularly remembers her visit to Quebec on October 10, 1964, “where nationalist riots were violently crushed today’s ‘Laststick Saturday'”.

If Quebec had previously been sympathetic to the Crown, the publication writes, that sentiment changed in the 1960s. “while the winds of independence were blowing over most of the former British colonies”. Monarchy, summarized for The press historian Carolyn Harris, then became a symbol of colonialism, “while earlier it was seen as a system that protects the rights of minorities”.

“Political Flames”

Caused the disappearance of Elizabeth II “Political Flames” in the election campaign in Quebec, observed The sun. Québec Premier François Legault lowered the province’s flags on public buildings, incurring the ignominy of the leader of the Parti Québecois, an independent party: “François Legault should not treat the Queen of England as head of the state of Quebec or give credit to an illegitimate British colonial regime in Quebec.” responded Paul St-Pierre Plamondon.

With regard to the October 3 vote, note the following The sun, “The Parti Québécois will of course try to use the situation opened up by this death politically.”.