"...conservative imperialists and monarchists who control our national mythology..."

Strange comment in the early 21st century, Work Farce!  Nobody talks about "Imperialists" in Canada today. That belongs to the era of the empire "on which the sun never sets."  Gone by the mid-1950s.  "Our national mythology"?  It could be argued--and has been--that since the time the sun actually DID set on Britain's empire, Canada doesn't even HAVE one.  

Monarchists?  Well, out of tradition, most likely politeness (which may be part of whatever qualifies as Canadian myth) or curiosity, thousands of us will line  the streets to see Prince William wave from the back seat of a car as it rolls through our cities--(his grandmother being too elderly to do the deed.)  Monarchists?  A spent force. Don't see kids keeping scrapbooks on the Royal Family as my young mother once did.

OK, so who is teaching "the wrong" lessons?  The only reason we've got token troops overseas is pure politics, not passion.