Lowering the Flag on Parliament

The sheer majesty of Parliament Hill in Ottawa should be enough to reduce any mossback to weeping in public in broad daylight. Anyone who thinks this resplendent image oozes Republic and not Kingdom needs their head or heart examined, I'm not sure which. The whole place reeks of monarchist splendour.

Unfortunately the modernists and experimenters in Parliament want to devalue the franchise. Her Majesty's combined Loyal Opposition showed their contempt for decades of protocol in passing a motion calling on the Crown to half-mast the Peace Tower flag every time a soldier dies in service of Queen and Country. Given that a Canadian soldier gets killed every other week in Afghanistan (on average), it doesn't take a genius to figure how quickly such devaluation will take root. All in a maneouvre to gang up on the government and play politics it would seem.

In economics they call this the law of diminishing returns. It is right to resist this stupidity, so that when Remembrance Day rolls around every year, we still care to stop and pay our respects for all soldiers who have lost their lives in all our past wars; so that at the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them. Remembrance without diminishment.