Indigenous leaders among officials greeting King Charles at Ottawa airport
King Charles, Queen Camilla arrive for 2-day visit that includes reading of throne speech to open Parliament
King Charles, left, walks with Gov. Gen. Mary Simon on Monday at the Ottawa airport. Queen Camilla, is behind Charles walking with Simon’s husband, Whit Fraser. Charles and Camilla are in Ottawa for two days where Charles will deliver the speech from the throne Tuesday to open Parliament. (Photo by Jorge Antunes)
For his first time as Canada’s monarch — and reportedly planning a speech stressing Canada’s sovereignty in the face of American threats of annexation — King Charles arrived at the Ottawa airport Monday, where he was greeted by a crowd of several hundred people.
King Charles walks past an honour guard of the Royal Canadian Dragoons after his arrival in Ottawa on Monday. (Photo by Jorge Antunes)
His plane landed a little after 1:20 p.m., arriving on what was a brilliant, sunny day with a cool breeze coming off the tarmac.
Charles and his wife, Queen Camilla, were met by Indigenous drummers from Eagle River Drum group and singers from Quebec’s Kitigan Zibi First Nation.
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami president Natan Obed, Gov. Gen. Mary Simon, and Prime Minister Mark Carney also greeted the royal couple on the tarmac, who then made their way to a line of schoolchildren from across Ottawa assembled to meet the King and Queen.
The King is in Ottawa for two days to deliver the speech from the throne Tuesday in the House of Commons, following Monday’s opening of the 45th Parliament.
It’s the first time Parliament has sat since before Christmas. In January, then-prime minister Justin Trudeau prorogued Parliament until the end of March. But before MPs could come back, new Liberal Leader Mark Carney called an election for April 28, which his party won.
Media reports indicate Charles will likely make Canadian sovereignty a part of his speech, as a direct rebuke to the rhetoric from U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration suggesting Canada become the 51st state.
Charles and his entourage left Ottawa International Airport after 30 minutes, heading to the city’s Lansdowne Park where he dropped the ceremonial faceoff for a street hockey game.
The clown show is on come to the circus
The society is becoming heartless AHs……starting with first commenter…..AH.
Inuit leaders kissing the ring then going back to Ottawa to ask for funding to decolonialize the system. What a joke.
I see no contradiction. No one knows what decolonization means (see the recent UWO human rights abuse case with Margaret Munn and Kathryn Hibbert) and it has morphed into a term that means, ‘whatever we don’t like’ – it is a great catch-all term.
If it means whatever you want, then you are immune to charges of hypocrisy.
Hey Weird, you’re a joke, hahaha…..joke’s on you.