After Prince Charles’ visit to Canada, the Queen is facing criticism for the first time in her 70-year reign as head of state.
The Prince of Wales and his wife Camilla Parker Bowles arrived in Canada last week to commemorate the 96-year-Platinum old’s Jubilee. During his discussions with the statesmen, Charles, on the other hand, refused to apologise on the monarch’s behalf for crimes committed in the kingdom.
Dr. Shola, a royal specialist, responded to Charles’ remark on Twitter, saying, “The #royaltours are insulting and deceptive.” Atrocities committed in the name of the Queen, the British Empire, and the government, but Prince Charles didn’t ‘think’ to apologise and commit respiratory justice? The Queen is unfit to be the head of state of other countries. She is useless to them.”
RoseAnne Archibald, national leader of the Assembly of First Nations, made a direct request to Prince Charles for the Queen to apologise for “assimilation and genocide.”
Although he did not apologise, the future King did acknowledge “failures by those who are accountable.”
Ms Archibald called this as a “starting step,” but added that it is “insufficient.”
Ms Archibald said about her conversation with Prince Charles: “I begged his mother, the Queen, the head of the Anglican church, to apologise for whatever transpired in the institutions of assimilation and extermination.
“I also requested an apology from the Crown for the Crown’s shortcomings in that relationship, in our treaty relationship with them.
“One of the things he did say about the connection was that he acknowledged there had been failings by people who are accountable for that relationship with the Crown, which I thought was a really, not a surprise thing that he said, but that type of recognition really meant something.”
“It’s not enough; it’s only a first step; we have yet to hear an apology, and when that apology comes, it will just be one step on the road to reconciliation for First Nations.”
The country of Canada has a long history of missing women. The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls was launched after extensive study revealed a “inescapable conclusion” that Canada intends to “destroy Indigenous people.”
2,000-4,000 Indigenous women have gone missing in Canada since 1980.
