Snakedoc said:
haha, I'm more like one of those MARS officers who is closer to that happy medium on regaining our naval heritage. I support the change but if nothing happens, I'm not going to go nuts over it. I'll leave the staff paper to one of our greener members/sailors or perhaps the OP of the thread :nod:
Now the renaming of MARCOM to Canadian Navy (Royal or not) is a different can of worms. Hard to develop your naval heritage when you don't have an official name people can relate to. But for that there's already been staff papers, petitions, senate motions that have passed...etc...etc...and I digress
I
suspect that you are on the right track.
My
guess is that a few moderately senior "creative thinkers" will get you a Canadian Navy, Canadian Army and Canadian Air Force as "administrative structures" (mainly for personnel management, operational/equipment requirements, doctrine and the like), each headed by a Chief of the Naval Staff, Chief of the General Staff and so on. I would also
guess that the ensign/jack conundrum is fairly easily resolved to the satisfaction of most sailors.
My other
guess, potentially less popular, is that
"Royal" is out of fashion - permanently - in Canada. I read somewhere that the head of the
monarchists said that their big enemy wasn't republicans, it was indifference. That's it, I think, there are a few people who are desperately keen to
restore our Royal/British heritage and a few more who are equally, or more, opposed, but the vast majority of us, English, French, native born, immigrant, black and white, simply don't care and we are unwilling to endure any fuss being made by one side or the other.The effect is that our sovereign, when she visits us, is seen, more and more, as a visiting head of another, foreign state - rather more like the Queen of the Netherlands than the Queen of Canada. That may (or may not) be a pity but I
think it is a fact and, Senate committees or not, that "fact on the ground' dooms any and all attempts to recreate the Royal Canadian Navy or the Royal Canadian Engineers or the Royal Canadian Air Force. Perhaps I'm wrong ... I am quite often, but I think not, not this time.
Edit: typo