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Trudeau’s ‘coronation gift’ is just lip service to the monarchy

13 May 2023

4:30 PM

13 May 2023

4:30 PM

Cynically dressed up as a coronation-related gift to the Canadian nation, just days after the coronation, the country’s leader Justin Trudeau has unveiled a Royal Crown of Canada.

Trudeau is paying lip service to the monarchy Canada shares with Britain and the King’s other realms

Not a physical gold and jewelled crown, mind you, but a virtual crown, designed to replace St Edward’s crown – the very crown placed on the King’s head a week ago – on Canada’s coat of arms, official documents, and armed forces and Mountie badges and insignia.

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