This should be good.
The technical head of state in Canada visited his once loyal subjects to give a heidi ho! to them, and technically opened up their Parliament, did some waving, and left ASAP. What a guy and what a show.
I'm only slightly joking about all this.
King Charles III visited Canada for a grand two whole days, then exited the country and headed right back to Great Britain after he opened up Parliament.
King Charles III said Canada is facing unprecedented challenges in a world that's never been more dangerous as he opened the Canadian Parliament on Tuesday with a speech widely viewed as a show of support in the face of annexation threats by U.S. President Donald Trump.
The king is the head of state in Canada, which is a member of the Commonwealth of former colonies. Trump’s repeated suggestion that Canada become the 51st state prompted Prime Minister Mark Carney to invite Charles to give a speech from the throne outlining the Liberal government's priorities for the new session of Parliament.
“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...
He added that “many Canadians are feeling anxious and worried about the drastically changing world around them."
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 happen to think that Canada becoming part of the United States is a really bad idea for our country politically, and I wrote about that right here. OPINION: The US Absorbing Canada Is a Bad Idea for Future Elections, So Let's Finish These Other Goals
If Canada and its provinces become part of the United States of America, Republicans would probably never win the White House and/or Congress again. Now, I know some of my friends here in the deep blue state of Michigan would probably fight that notion, and say that if Canadians became Americans, they would just become more conservative.
I don't think that is the route that would necessarily happen. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't.
Canada is a large welfare state, and its citizens lean left of center. That would radically change the way that we do elections in these states, and would change the Electoral College to make sure that a Republican like Donald Trump would never win again.
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.
I'm in no way, shape, or form willing to take on 40-something million liberals in Canada and add them to the voter rolls in the U.S. That would greatly reshape the American political system, and that's not a happy trade-off in my opinion.
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.
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