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kathleen_dailey) wrote2025-03-14 06:48 pm
kathleen_dailey) wrote2025-03-14 06:48 pm
An arcane gesture, but maybe not meaningless?
Even to those of us who aren't monarchists? These days, all public affirmations of Canada's sovereignty are welcome, no matter how recondite.
King Charles gives his Canadian attendant a sword as sovereignty threats intensify
"Charles, as the constitutional monarch, does not usually comment in public on political issues of the day, but he can send a message through what he does and who he meets with. ... The 51st state talk has already become very tiresome for, I think, every single Canadian. So I'm sure it's equally tiresome for the King as King of Canada."
King Charles gives his Canadian attendant a sword as sovereignty threats intensify
"Charles, as the constitutional monarch, does not usually comment in public on political issues of the day, but he can send a message through what he does and who he meets with. ... The 51st state talk has already become very tiresome for, I think, every single Canadian. So I'm sure it's equally tiresome for the King as King of Canada."