Canada does indeed still have considerable national pride.
The anti-royalist ramblings of a champagne socialist are best ignored, in my view. Starving such people of the oxygen of response is the best tactic against trolling.
The VC10 was once deemed fit for flying the Head of the Commonwealth around the world, yet now the risk-averse, yellow streak, MAA-will-screw-me mentality pervading the RAF means that it may no longer carry
any passengers.