I didn't expect to be quoting Stephen Harper today.
In an interview Stephen Harper once had, when he was prime minister, on the subject of the Crown, he said that, like most Canadians, "I was largely indifferent to the Crown." But then he went on to say that since he held high office, he had come to see its remarkable value. Even more importantly, he added in a somewhat dark aside, "I have looked closely at the alternatives and they scare me." John Fraser in The Globe and Mail