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By all accounts, King Charles III’s major address on Tuesday in Ottawa was meant to be a rebuke to Donald Trump and all his taunts about Canada becoming a 51st state if it had to depend on money from the U.S. in order to survive. Yet when Charles finally delivered his highly anticipated address, he ended up undercutting Canadian sovereignty more than supporting it.
Letting Trump have it was the whole point of Charles’ trip: AP reported Friday that Charles was “coming to Canada to deliver a message: Canada is a sovereign nation distinct from the United States. U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated suggestion that the U.S. annex its northern neighbor prompted new Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to invite Charles to give the speech from the throne on Tuesday where he will lay out the Canadian government’s agenda when Parliament reopens.”
Yeah, this was really a great idea from the beginning: show Orange Man Bad that you’re a sovereign state by reminding the world that you’re a part of an international conglomeration of former British colonies under the sovereignty of the English king. But when he actually spoke on Tuesday, Charles made it even worse.
The monarch started out well enough, offering some boilerplate about how “we witness Canadians coming together in a renewed sense of national pride, unity and hope.” Right after mentioning Canada’s national pride and unity, however, Charles sharply reversed course, saying: “I would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg people. This land acknowledgement is a recognition of shared history as a nation. While continuing to deepen my own understanding, it is my great hope that in each of your communities, and collectively as a country, a path is found toward truth and reconciliation, in both word and deed.”
Message: Charles is woke. And it really isn’t significantly deeper than that for Charles himself, but the implications of what he said went far beyond what he likely intended. Charles was just affirming that he was a standard-issue 21st-century leftist, full of guilt for colonialism and likely for white supremacy as well, despite never actually having indulged in either one.
Charles was paying what he likely thought to be meaningless lip service to the fashionable notions of the day, one of which is that people of European descent are illegitimate occupiers of land that is rightly owned by brown people, who are sinless victims, sacrificially bearing the sins of the white man. The fact that those brown people themselves violently seized the land from others is of no concern to those who purvey this particular mythology.
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geoffc says
It is worth understanding that the Speech from the Throne (Throne Speech) is written by the Prime Minister;s staff, and should be listened to, as if the PM were speaking not the person reading it.
It is just that it is always read by the head of state, normally the Governor General (The Kings representative in Canada), This is only the third time the actual sovereign read the speech. QE2 in the 1950s and I am not sure when the third was.
However, how does one demonstrate sovereignty of a country by having big daddy come and read it for you?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I’ve never understood how a sovereign country can have a Governor General (a disguised term for a viceroy) who represents a foreign ruler. What exactly was the point of the Canada Act of 1982 which ended the power of the British parliament to amend Canada’s constitution, if the ruler of that country remained QEII?
At least w/ QEII, she had enough class that there was a case for countries having her as their ruler. Now that she’s gone, countries that are a part of the realm should either become republics, or if they like, have new homegrown royal dynasties of their own. Maybe Canada can have Harry & Meghan. Or even better, Justin Trudeau
Seth says
Surely the cretinous debauched crypto-Muslim Charles can put his money where his rancid mouth is, and scatter his billions all over the world, everywhere the British Empire imposed the ghastly curse of civilization.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I know I’ll probably be rubbing conservatives from the realm (countries that have Charles as their king, like Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Jamaica, et al) the wrong way by suggesting this, but how does one square being sovereign on one hand, and having the ruler of another country as their own ruler, on the other?
In their attempt to demonstrate to the world that they are not the US, Canada goes to hilarious lengths to tie itself to Britain. I get a sense that New Zealand does the same to show itself as distinct from Australia
Barbados did the smart thing a few years ago by becoming a republic. That would be a good idea for members of the realm to become
skeptiker says
König Karl der III. Aha, hieß der nicht mal Charles? Womit verdient der eigentlich seinen Lebensunterhalt?
Tritt der in Kanada nicht als Siedlerkolonialist auf? Wo ist die Empörung der Woke-Faschisten?
Ceraurus says
Unlike the United States, Canada takes “Indian” treaties seriously, and the government is negotiating one for the national capital region. So the speech is right. Canada’s Parliament is on unceded land.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
If that’s how Canada/Canadians feel, maybe all Canadian Whites should return to Britain or whichever other European country they came from, and hand over the entire country to all those tribes. By now, those tribes should be up to speed on how to run a successful country, and do a good job there on their own native lands
Ceraurus says
Maybe we’re better people than Americans. We believe in property rights, even for non-whites. We’ll make a fair deal with our Indians, as we’ve done in most of our country, instead of murdering them.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Well, in the US, 🪶Indians have the same individual rights as Whites and anyone else. If they choose, they can either continue to remain citizens of their tribal-nations, or if they consider themselves more as individuals rather than groups, they can live the same sort of mainstream life as the rest of the population
Ceraurus says
And what does that have to do with their land rights? In Canada, they can live any way they want. But our government does not steal their land (thereby respecting their property rights, a policy going back to 1763) or break its treaties.