Independent but not a Republic

Today in the Hill Times, NDP MP for Winnipeg Centre Pat Martin suggests that the time for Canada to stand up as a nation, on our own two feet and declare ourselves the Republic of Canada is now. Like John Manley, a former Deputy Prime Minister under Jean Chrétien, Liberal MP for Ottawa South and Time Magazine 2001 Canadian Newsmaker of the Year, he too is an outspoken critic of and an advocate of the abolition the monarchy of Canada, as well as friend of republicanism, originally using the marriage of the Prince of Wales to the Duchess of Cornwall as proof of its uselessness. However, I do not see why Canada would have to become a Republic, as being a Dominion keeps with Canadian tradition without remaining within a politically depressive mental state of colonialism and domination by one of the three founding peoples.

Personally, I believe Canada always should have declared its true independence years ago, with the patriation, or bringing home of the constitution, through the Canada Act of 1982 only being a mere permission to go out alone into the night, while still being under curfew of the English British Commonwealth and Crown. Looking beyond the Canadian Two Solitudes and into the Aboriginal Third, it would go along way for both the French Québécois and especially those in our maligned nation of Natives to rid the Dominion of the oppressive symbol of colonialism in this country once and for all!

Why not take a first step towards it by declaring a Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Act, whereby upon her untimely death, the Dominion would be released from its role as a constitutional monarchy to that of a constitutional dominion, thus the heir apparent to the throne, the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II, Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall Prince Charles shall not then become Canada's king?