King Charles visits Canada to deliver throne speech

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King Charles III arrived Monday successful Ottawa connected a sojourn that Canada's person says volition underscore his nation's sovereignty amid U.S. President Trump's speech of the United States annexing its bluish neighbor.

Mr. Trump's repeated proposition that the U.S. annex Canada prompted Prime Minister Mark Carney to invitation Charles to springiness the code from the throne that volition outline his government's docket for the caller Parliament.

The king is the head of authorities successful Canada, which is simply a subordinate of the British Commonwealth of erstwhile colonies.

"This historical grant matches the value of our times. It speaks to our enduring contented and friendship, to the vitality of our law monarchy and our chiseled identity, and to the historical ties that crises lone fortify," Carney said successful a statement.

"Canada's spot lies successful gathering a beardown aboriginal portion embracing its English, French, and Indigenous roots — the national of peoples that forms our bedrock."

King Charles successful Ottawa

His level landed and Carney, the caller premier curate and a erstwhile caput of the Bank of England, and Canada's archetypal indigenous politician general, Mary Simon, the king's typical successful Canada, gathered to greet the king and Queen Camilla arsenic good a 25-member grant defender from the Royal Canadian Dragoons, for which the king is colonel-in-chief.

Charles and Camilla's beingness "reaffirms the enduring law enslaved that has shaped Canada's travel into a arrogant and autarkic nation," Simon said successful a connection Monday.

"Their sojourn invites america to bespeak connected who we are and to observe our chiseled nationalist identity."

Charles' sojourn comes aft Trump's gathering with Carney

Earlier this month, Prime Minister Carney told Mr. Trump that Canada is "not for sale" and "won't beryllium for sale, ever" successful an Oval Office meeting, moments aft the American president called the borderline betwixt the U.S. and Canada "artificial" and romanticized the thought of Canada joining the U.S.

Mr. Trump said helium and Carney wouldn't beryllium discussing the U.S. acquiring Canada unless "somebody wants to sermon it," but said determination would beryllium "tremendous" benefits to Canada successful the lawsuit of a "wonderful marriage" betwixt the 2 countries.

The president has repeatedly floated the thought of acquiring Canada, contempt Canada's repeated rejection of the concept. Their gathering astatine the White House was the archetypal 1 the 2 leaders person had since Carney's Liberal Party was victorious in last month's national election.

"As you cognize from existent estate, determination are immoderate places that are ne'er for sale," Carney told Mr. Trump. "We're sitting successful 1 close now, Buckingham Palace that you visited, arsenic well. And having met with the owners of Canada implicit the people of the run the past respective months, it's not for sale, it won't beryllium for sale, ever. But the accidental is successful the concern and what we tin physique together."

Canadians accent their differences from the U.S.

It is uncommon for the monarch to present what's called the code from the throne successful Canada. Charles' mother, Queen Elizabeth II, did it doubly successful her 70-year reign, the past clip successful 1977.

Canadians are mostly indifferent to the monarchy, but Carney has been anxious to amusement the differences betwixt Canada and the United States. The king's sojourn intelligibly underscores Canada's sovereignty, helium said.

After America gained independency from Britain, Canada remained a colony until 1867 and afterward, continued arsenic a law monarchy with a British-style parliamentary system.

"We are different," erstwhile Quebec Premier Jean Charest said. "If you look astatine wherefore King Charles is speechmaking the code from the throne, past you person to past admit Canada's story."

However, the caller U.S. ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, said sending messages isn't indispensable and Canadians should determination connected from the 51st authorities talk, telling the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that if there's a connection to beryllium sent there's easier ways to bash that, specified arsenic calling him oregon calling the president.

Royal historiographer Carolyn Harris expects Mr. Trump to announcement the sojourn due to the fact that helium has repeatedly spoken astir his admiration for the royal family. Mr. Trump mightiness spot however antithetic Canada is from the U.S.

"It is simply a precise distinctive past that goes backmost to the waves of loyalists who settled present aft the American revolution," Harris said. "And we're going to seeing the king successful a Canadian context, escorted by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, surrounded by Canadian symbolism. This is precise overmuch King Charles III successful his relation arsenic King of Canada."

A royal invitation to Trump ruffles Canadians' feathers

The speech, which volition beryllium delivered Tuesday, is not written by the king oregon his U.K. advisers arsenic Charles serves arsenic a nonpartisan caput of state. He volition work what is enactment earlier him by Canada's government.

"Charles tin lone enactment with the consent and with the proposal of his premier minister. But astatine the aforesaid clip helium cannot enactment successful a mode that would propulsion immoderate of the different 14 Commonwealth realms nether the bus. So it is the finest tightrope to walk," said Justin Vovk, a Canadian royal historian.

Canadians were not blessed erstwhile U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer extended a authorities sojourn invitation to Mr. Trump connected behalf of the king during a clip erstwhile the U.S. president threatened Canada's sovereignty.

"They weren't impressed by that gesture, rather simply, fixed the circumstance," Carney told Britain's Sky News. "It was a clip erstwhile we were rather wide ... astir the issues astir sovereignty."

The king has much precocious been showing enactment for Canada, including displaying Canadian subject medals connected his thorax during a sojourn to a British craft carrier.

After his arrival, Charles volition driblet the ceremonial archetypal puck oregon shot during a thoroughfare hockey game. He volition besides be a assemblage lawsuit and conscionable with Carney. Camilla volition besides enactment successful a swearing-in ceremonial to go a Canadian privy councillor, a beingness assignment that allows her to springiness proposal astir the state to the king.

The king volition instrumentality to the U.K. aft Tuesday's code and a sojourn to Canada's National War Memorial.