Monarchists in Canada are confident that King Charles will keep the first speech of the new liberal government off the throne when the parliament returns at the end of May. They say it would be an important gesture of the country’s head of state when Canada US President Donald Trump and his 51st state spotted.
Gzero Media, citing sources in Canada and Great Britain, reported on Wednesday that an invitation would be “rumored” to expand Charles.
When asked by CBC News On Thursday, a source of Buckingham Palace was not denied that there was an invitation from Prime Minister Mark Carney to keep Charles to keep the throne speech. The prime minister’s office did not answer a request for a comment on the potential visit.
But monarchists know that there was a concerted thrust to visit Charles here – something he has not done in Canada since his time to mark the Queen’s platinum anniversary in 2022 – and there are strong signals that it could happen around May 26th if the house returns.
“I think the timing would be perfect,” said Robert Finch, the chairman of the monarchist League of Canada.
“It would be a great show of sovereignty. It would remind the Canadians who the head of state, and it would show a certain president in the south that we really have an independent and sovereign country with King Charles III, a man he respects,” he said.
Charles spoke in Rome in the Italian parliament last month and referred to Canada’s efforts of World War II, a rare gesture of the king when he spoke outside of Canadian or Commonwealth environments. Charles has retained a limited travel plan since the treatment of cancer.
The British new monarch king Charles, Charles, has profound connections to Canada, which made connections to some Canadians through its non -profit work and public relations during its many visits to the country.
Every new session of the parliament is opened by a throne speech, a document in which the expected direction and the goals of the government are determined and how it wants to achieve it.
The House of Commons and the Senate can only continue a business if the monarch or its representative, the general governor, gives this speech – an allusion to the important role that the crown plays in Canadian parliamentary democracy.
The speech is read by the throne, which is reserved for the king in the upper house, so he will get his name.
The last time the speech was read by Canada’s head of state when Queen Elizabeth held her in 1977.
“It would be a big moment”
“It was almost 50 years ago. It was a completely different Canada,” said Nathan Tidridge, a high school teacher in Waterdown, Ontario, and expert in crown-indigenous history and Vice President of the Studies of the Krone in Canada.
“It would be a big moment. This would be the king who really acts as King of Canada, and it would be an assertion of our sovereignty at this moment when we try to define what Kanada is, what the confederation is. It could possibly be the legacy of the king in this country,” he said in an interview.
A royal visit would also be Charles’ latest Canadian gesture at a time when the sovereignty of the country of Trump was questioned.
In the past two months since the outbreak of the trade war, Charles met both with Carney and with the former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for the private audience, worn his Canadian medals during a top-class military visit, on the site of the humpback Palace and he granted his personal Canadian Liaison and a high-ranking protocol officer in Parliament a sword.
“The king has this wish to support the Canadian Empire as King of Canada,” said Tidridge.
“It would not only send a strong message to Canadians, but also to Trump,” he said of the potential visit and quoted the president’s awe before the monarchy.
“The king made these nods on Canada outside the country. Imagine how it would be if it were here – it is an enormous opportunity” to strengthen the role of the crown in Canada in a dangerous moment, he said.
