Why Canada's coast guard lacks a royal title

Why did Stephen Harper not rename the service the Royal Canadian Coast Guard?

A proposed historical explanation is that avoiding the royal title helped keep Canadian fishery-protection vessels available locally instead of making them liable for Royal Navy service elsewhere.

Keeping Canadian patrol vessels available for local duties provides one proposed explanation for the coast guard's lack of a royal title. Its origins are traced to a fishery-protection service from which both the coast guard and navy developed. In this account, withholding the title helped keep those vessels outside the Royal Navy's wartime call-up arrangements. Steam propulsion and undersea telegraph cables made it easier to redirect warships rapidly to distant crises. Ships that had previously remained on the North American station could therefore be sent elsewhere when Canada still needed them for local work.