King’s big moment in Canada Na Trump Row

“This is a big problem for the king to do this,” says Jeremy Kinsman, former Canadian High Commissioner in the UK, while King Charles is preparing for a historical visit that shows support for Canada, which is confronted with pressure from US President Donald Trump.

“I hope Trump will understand,” says Mr. Kinsman, before the king became the first prince to open the Canadian parliament in almost 70 years.

So what can we expect from his speech as the head of state of Canada, which will be delivered in French and English in Ottawa on Tuesday?

It will be written on the advice of the Canadian government. But together with the Workaday lines on policy plans, Mr Kinsman expects a message, loud and clear, that Canada will not be the American 51st state.

“It will be very affirming for Canadian sovereignty. And I can personally say that it is something that King Charles will celebrate.

“It will say that the government will protect, pursue and preserve the sovereignty of Canada as an independent state Election won by Mark Carney on a wave of anti-trump-sentiment.

The mother of the king, the late Queen Elizabeth II, was the last monarch that the Canadian parliament opened in 1957 and was also the most recent one in 1977 gave the “speech of the throne” in a ceremony that marks the beginning of a parliamentary session.

She started that speech with a few of her own personal comments – so there is room for the king to add his own thoughts.

“I don’t know what pronoun they will use. He will talk about the ‘government proposal’. But I don’t know if they will throw an” I “. Anyway, he will be identified with it,” says Mr. Kinsman about the personal nature of the king in Canada – a Commonwealth Country and NATO partner.

It will be a more dressed event than the splendor of the opening of the state of Westminster of parliament. The king will be in a suit instead of a dress and crown, and reads a speech that could take approximately 25 minutes, a large part of which will be about the legislative plans of the government.

There are probably also nods about the importance of Canada’s First Nations communities, in a speech that has been coming from King Charles and Queen Camilla since the start of their reign on the first visit to Canada to Canada.

The king, invited by Mr Carney, will have to visit a message of solidarity with Canada, without endangering the UK’s relationship with the US.

“The king has a long experience and great skill in walking that diplomatic cord,” says a royal source.

“He has held high all over the world and in the political spectrum, with good relationships with world leaders who understand his unique position.”

Mel Cappe, a former Canadian minister and senior official, has been involved in preparing such speeches of the throne, usually held by a governor -general.

He expects that the king will in the beginning “give a pair of paragraphs of his own paragraphs” “give his own personal vision”, but the general text of the speech will be approved by the Canadian Prime Minister and his officials.

“He is not going to put President Trump in the eye. That would cause a problem for Canada. On the other hand, he will not suck up Donald Trump,” says Prof. Cappe, who was also a high -profiter of the UK.

He believes that this intervention can have a major impact: “This is huge symbolically. President Trump has a lot of admiration for the monarchy. He is impressed by the royals.”

This royal moment will be a platform for the Canadian government to talk and state about rates The visit to the White House where PM Carney said Canada would never be for saleSays the Pripe Cappe.

“So somewhere in that speech, look for the word” never, “he says.

President Trump, as shown in his recent controversial meetings of the White House with The President of South Africa Ramaphosa And Ukraine’s President Zensky, Can be an unpredictable diplomatic partner.

“The old alliances break down,” says Mr. Kinsman. And against a background of such uncertainty, King Charles was part of an unexpected international balancing law.

He became an important part of the charm offensive to maintain the good relations of the UK with President Trump, with An invitation for a second state visit. Now he goes with a message of reassurance for the Canadians.

Sir Keir Starmer used the king to get closer to Trump, while Mark Carney uses him to keep Trump further away.

“He is not someone’s tools or fools. This is something he believes … It is really something he wants,” says Mr. Kinsman about the king’s support for Canada.

The former diplomat remembers how much the then Prince Charles showed a personal affection for Canada and a sense of duty towards her people. A planned journey last year had to be canceled because of his cancer diagnosis.

There are many strong links. The throne on which the king will sit to give his speech includes wood from Windsor Great Park – part of the Kroon Landgoed.

Mr. Kinsman says that many Canadians are traumatized and upset by what he calls the “terrible” language of President Trump because he wants to take over Canada. It has shaken their view of the world and the new prime minister is expected to compete against the US.

Mr Carney said that Canadians were not “impressed” of the VK’s invitation to President Trump for a state visit. But Mr. Kinsman says that this is the Canadian understatement because he “is disgusted” of the invitation. It really ranked.

Nevertheless, he says that many Canadians are pragmatic enough to see that the VK has to hold good relations with the US and that the king – that head, both the UK and Canada – must play both roles in this “strange duality”.

This is rejected by Peter Donolo, a director of the Think Tank of the Canadian International Council, who believes that there is an impossible contradiction in the king who is different things for different countries.

“On the one hand, they use Charles in the United Kingdom to favor the favor of the Americans and then it seems that our government wants to use him to stand up for Canada. You can’t go in both sides,” says Mr. Donolo.

He regards the monarchy as “irrelevant” for this dispute with the US. “It has no influence on how Trump sees Canada,” says Mr. Donolo.

In theory, the king acts in two separate and different roles and advice on the British government on British matters and advice from the Canadian government in Canada. There are also differences. In Canada, the reference to the king as “defender of faith” was deleted from his title.

Elizabeth McCallion, who teaches political sciences at the University of Toronto, thinks that many Canadians are not really interested in the constitutional complications around the role of the king.

But she says that people in Canada were deeply offended by Trump’s goal to annex their country – and were “disappointed” that they had relatively little support from the UK, that “buddys against Donald Trump”.

They are now looking to see what the king could say to support them.

“People acknowledge that this is important,” she says.