The leader of Canada paid a visit to his loyal subjects, officially opened their Parliament, greeted them, and quickly departed. He certainly knows how to put on a show!
I’m only slightly joking about all this.
During his short two-day visit, King Charles III of Great Britain went to Canada and promptly returned home after inaugurating Parliament.
As the monarch, King Charles III holds the highest position in Canada, a country that is part of the Commonwealth of former colonies. Due to Trump’s repeated remarks suggesting Canada become the 51st state, Prime Minister Mark Carney extended an invitation to Charles to deliver a speech from the throne, detailing the priorities of the Liberal government for the new parliamentary session.
“We must face reality: since the Second World War, our world has never been more dangerous and unstable. Canada is facing challenges that, in our lifetimes, are unprecedented,” Charles said in French, one of Canada’s official languages.
The King was invited right around the time that brand-new Prime Minister, Mark Carney, had his first meeting with Donald Trump in the Oval Office. That meeting was supposed to normalize relations between the two countries that had faltered under Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
From most observers’ points of view, the two leaders had a good meeting, much better than the conversations that Trump had with Trudeau, but still lacked the usual collegiality that most United States and Canadian meetings had in the past.
Charles continued his speech to his loyal subjects…
The king reaffirmed Canada’s sovereignty, saying the “True North is indeed strong and free.”
Trump seemed to respond to the king’s visit later Tuesday, writing that if Canada becomes the “cherished 51st State” it won’t have to pay to join his future Golden Dome missile defense program.
Trump, who is no stranger to missing an opportunity to get in a well-placed jab, decided to remind the Canadians of what they are missing if they turn down the offer of becoming the 51st state.
The Canadians need the United States more than the vice versa.
As I wrote about here a couple of months ago…
I don’t think that is the route that would necessarily happen. I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t.
That our Canadian cousins lean more left and want to elect people like Justin Trudeau is just fine. I already live in Michigan and deal with a certain amount of that, so I don’t want to inject 40 million Canadians into the US political system, blocking any chance of Republicans ever sitting in the White House again in my lifetime or controlling one chamber of Congress.
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So let’s have the Canadians keep their system and have the sovereign open up their Parliament once every 40 or 50 years, and we’ll keep electing our presidents every four years, and we’ll keep it that way.
Forever and ever until the end of time.
