Will Canada Become the 51st American State?

PM Carney says No. He announced he was inviting King Charles III to Canada to tell Mr. Trump that Canada is a special part of an international conglomeration of former British colonies under the sovereignty of an English king and certainly could not be part of any other union.

The King gave that formal speech yesterday from a grand throne, but he went far off script, indicating that he was not the sovereign over Canada, and that Canada wasn’t really a nation at all.

“I would like to acknowledge,” he said, “that we are gathered on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg people…it is my great hope that in each of your communities, and collectively as a country, a path is found toward truth and reconciliation, in both word and deed.”

Robert Spencer summarizes: “Charles is woke. Charles was just affirming that he was a standard-issue 21st-century leftist, full of guilt for colonialism and likely for white supremacy as well, despite never actually having indulged in either one.

“Charles was paying what he likely thought to be meaningless lip service to the fashionable notions of the day, one of which is that people of European descent are illegitimate occupiers of land that is rightly owned by brown people, who are sinless victims, sacrificially bearing the sins of the white man. The fact that those brown people themselves violently seized the land from others is of no concern to those who purvey this particular mythology.

“The king, however, is not some leftist college professor standing in a sparsely filled auditorium to give a lecture on racism to bored and thoroughly indoctrinated blue-haired students. When he makes a declaration of sovereignty, it matters, and his land acknowledgment before the Canadian parliament was exactly that. The ostensible sovereign of the land was actually saying that he was not the sovereign and that the land belonged to the Algonquin Anishinaabeg people.”