King Charles Arrives in Canada For Royal Visit, Will Deliver Government Speech to Senate
by Oliver JJ Lane
The King and Queen of Canada, Charles III and Camilla, arrived in Ottawa on Monday and the King will deliver a Speech from the Throne to the Senate on Tuesday.
An official visit to Canada at the suggestion of the country’s new Prime Minister Mark Carney — said to have been called by Carney as an assertion of sovereignty amid jokes and jibes by President Trump about a 51st state in North America — by King Charles III is underway.
While King Charles III is best known to most as the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and that is his title when there, he is equally the King of 14 other Commonwealth Realms worldwide. When he is in any of those given countries including Canada, Australia, Papua New Guinea, and New Zealand he is first and foremost the King of that realm at that time.
The King of Canada will give a Speech from the Throne to Parliament on Tuesday. While the speech is given in the language of the first-person, just The King’s Speech when it is given in the British Parliament, it is actually written by the government. Because the Prime Minister is constitutionally the chief advisor to the King and acts in his name, whatever is the policy of the government of the day is taken to be the position of the King, hence the Canadian government writing the speech on his behalf.
It will outline the government priorities for Prime Minister Mark Carney for the coming Parliament.