Britain’s King Charles III is greeted by an honor guard after arriving at Macdonald-Cartier Worldwide Airport in Ottawa, Canada, on Monday.
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King Charles III and Queen Camilla have arrived in Canada at the beginning of a two-day go to extensively seen as bolstering the nation’s sovereignty amid threats by President Trump to show the US’ northern neighbor into the 51st state.
The King was met on the airport within the nation’s capital, Ottawa, by dignitaries, together with Canada’s new prime minister, Mark Carney, and the nation’s first indigenous governor normal, Mary Simon, who’s the king’s consultant in Canada.
Carney, who was elected on an anti-Trump platform in April, requested the king to go to shortly after he turned chief of the Liberal political occasion. On the time, Trump had imposed tariffs on Canada and was taunting to annex the nation.
In a press release, Carney mentioned the king’s go to was an historic honor that matches the load of the instances.
“It speaks to our enduring custom and friendship, to the vitality of our constitutional monarchy and our distinct identification, and to the historic ties that crises solely fortify,” Carney mentioned.
Carney and the king are on account of have a gathering through the go to.
Properly wishers wave flags earlier than the arrival of Britain’s King Charles III and Queen Camilla at a Lansdowne Park group occasion in Ottawa, Canada, on Sunday.
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On Tuesday, King Charles will learn a speech from the throne to open a brand new session of Canada’s parliament, the primary time a monarch has completed that since 1977, when Queen Elizabeth addressed the senate.
Will probably be a largely ceremonial occasion, however it underlines a definite distinction in how the democracies of the U.S. and Canada differ. Canada is a constitutional monarchy and the king is the nation’s head of state.
The speech from the throne lays out the Canadian authorities’s plans for the long run. Though learn by Charles, will probably be written by Carney’s workplace and is anticipated to robustly defend Canada’s sovereignty — a lot because the prime minister did on the marketing campaign path.
That is Charles’ first journey to Canada since he was topped king in 2023. An earlier journey deliberate for final 12 months was cancelled after he was identified with most cancers. He has typically spoken warmly about Canada and its individuals, calling them “outward-looking, big-hearted individuals” throughout a go to in Might 2022.
