Re: Why not just relax...?/ November 5 Hoy article

At the end of a rousing piece, Claire Hoy suggests that the controversial visit by Prince Charles and consort Camilla, despite its cost to Canadian taxpayers and the fact that many are not interested in the doings of a jaded, formerly adulterous, middle-aged couple and the fact that this king-to-be will probably have to twiddle his thumbs for another twenty years or so until his mother decides to do the decent thing, "shows we are proud from whence we came."

Mr. Hoy has failed to notice that we live in 2009, not 1959. Faces in the streets of Canadian cities are now as likely to be coloured as white. History is not a static diorama in a museum; it is a constantly changing river. In 2009, "we came" from many places, not just the British Isles.

When are we going to show how proud we are of those places?
Geoff. Rytell
Toronto