The ailing monarch King Charles III and Queen Camilla came to Canada to assert British ownership of this crown colony. Charles followed the example of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, in personally delivering a throne speech in the opening of the Canadian Parliament. He assured Canadians that the country was near and dear to him with a strange metaphor: “Every time I come to Canada … a little more of Canada seeps into my bloodstream—and from there straight to my heart.” (Does he consider Canada a poison, or an opioid, perhaps?) Apparently the idle claims of President Trump threatening to make Canada the 51st state of the Union had made such a visit an imperative for the Windsors.
Charles also praised the recent meeting of the new Prime Minister Mark Carney with U.S. President Donald Trump, claiming that the meeting represents a new stage in the important U.S.-Canadian relationship. It is undoubtedly not unrelated that Canada will be the host of the G7 this month, where the British monarch no doubt hopes to woo Trump into the sinister plans of the European members for a decisive conflict with Russia.
The full speech and spectacle can be watched here.
Given the recent scandals about the notorious “Indian schools,” which tormented Indian children for years and brainwashing them in “British ways” and killing many of them in the process, Charles was eager to remark that he was speaking in the land of the Algonquin and Anishinaabe peoples. He also had a whole slew of Indian chiefs sitting in the Parliament during his talk.
