Awards and the Nationality Perceived
Oct. 3rd, 2012 07:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineSo there's this children's book that was nominated for a Governor-General's literary award. And the author asked that the nomination be withdrawn.
He doesn't consider himself "a subject of Her Majesty", being a Québecois nationalist.
Details at this CBC article.
One thing I don't think Biz - the musician now doubling as a children's author here - understands here is that a lot of us in the Rest Of Canada see ourselves as Canadian citizens, and therefore just as much not "subjects of Her Majesty". The Monarchist League's local membership keeps begging the rest of us to reconsider our self-perception, of course. But...really. We dropped the "British subject" thing a couple of generations back. Some of us even did that in our hearts long before the Constitution got repatriated in 1982. Some, even before the Statute of Westminster in 1931.
(National Geographic atlas editors, I'm looking at you in particular here. I saw that Concise Atlas of the World of yours at World of Maps last night before Pen and Paper Workshop. The one giving our "independence" date as 1931. Really?)
A lot of les vieux gardes among the separatistes don't get that, probably. And wouldn't want to believe it even now.
Can't be helped. This is Canada, now.
Someone at 24 Sussex could probably use a reminder of this, too...
He doesn't consider himself "a subject of Her Majesty", being a Québecois nationalist.
Details at this CBC article.
One thing I don't think Biz - the musician now doubling as a children's author here - understands here is that a lot of us in the Rest Of Canada see ourselves as Canadian citizens, and therefore just as much not "subjects of Her Majesty". The Monarchist League's local membership keeps begging the rest of us to reconsider our self-perception, of course. But...really. We dropped the "British subject" thing a couple of generations back. Some of us even did that in our hearts long before the Constitution got repatriated in 1982. Some, even before the Statute of Westminster in 1931.
(National Geographic atlas editors, I'm looking at you in particular here. I saw that Concise Atlas of the World of yours at World of Maps last night before Pen and Paper Workshop. The one giving our "independence" date as 1931. Really?)
A lot of les vieux gardes among the separatistes don't get that, probably. And wouldn't want to believe it even now.
Can't be helped. This is Canada, now.
Someone at 24 Sussex could probably use a reminder of this, too...
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Date: 2012-10-04 12:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-04 12:27 am (UTC)Self-perception is another matter.
And more than a few people seem to share it (http://rfmcdpei.livejournal.com/3207791.html), though perhaps in slightly different ways.
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Date: 2012-10-04 12:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-04 01:18 pm (UTC)