King Charles III says that Canada sees a “renewed feeling of national pride, unity and hope” at a critical moment while delivering the Throne speech Tuesday.
“It is with a deep feeling of pride and pleasure that my wife and me Join here today While we see the Canadians meeting in a renewed sense of national pride, unity and hope, “said the king.
“I have always had the greatest admiration for the unique identity of Canada, which is recognized around the world for courage and sacrifice to defend national values and for the diversity and kindness of the Canadians,” added the king.
The speech of Prime Minister Mark Carney of the Throne, used by the Prime Ministers to describe their plans for the next session, Consequently focuses on a feeling of national unity, economic growth and global trade.
In the midst of the current trade war and threats to Canada’s sovereignty by US President Donald Trump, the king noticed that in the last 50 years since Queen Elizabeth II read her last Canadian discourse in the throne in 1977, the country has given the example “as a force for good”.
“As the anthem reminds us, the real north is indeed strong and free,” he said.
King Charles III, in the speech, echoes the previous comments of Carney that the global trade system changed, saying that “relations with Canada partners also change”.
The speech noted that Carney and American president Donald Trump already defined a new economic and security relationship between the two countries “rooted in respect and based on common interests”.
In the middle of anxiety about how the world changes, the discourse noted that the changing world has an opportunity.
“This moment is also an incredible opportunity, an opportunity for renewal, an opportunity to think big and to act greater, an opportunity for Canada to embark on the greatest transformation of its economy since the Second World War,” read the King.
“A confident Canada, which has welcomed new Canadians, including in some of the most tragic world conflict zones, can seize this opportunity by recognizing that all Canadians can give themselves much more than any foreign power on any continent can ever take away,” he said.
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While focusing on Canada’s sovereignty and unityThe speech also reiterated the promises made by the liberals during the federal electoral campaign, including a reduction in the middle class and the reduction of TPS on houses or less than a million dollars for house buyers for the first time.
“The primordial objective of the government, its main mission, is to build the strongest economy in the G7,” said discourse.
Among this, noted the speech, by reducing interprorcal trade barriers – a promise that the Prime Minister made both during and after the federal electoral campaign.
The former Prime Ministers Kim Campbell, Stephen Harper and Justin Trudeau were present, as well as the late the widow of former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, Mila Mulroney. Former Governor General David Johnston and Michaelle Jean was also part of the public, as well as judges of the Supreme Court of Canada, the Chief of Defense Staff, Jennie Carignan, and former speakers of the House of Commons, notably Geoff Reagan and Peter Milliken, and the Prime Minister of Manitoba Wab Kinew, among other high guests.
Liberals will have to obtain the support of members of at least another party to pass the discourse of the throne, which is considered a test of trust and could lower the government if enough deputies vote against the implementation legislation.
However, with a liberal caucus of 168 deputies – President Francis Scarpaleggia has been elected liberal, but must remain impartial and only in the event of a link – the conservatives, the Quebec Bloc and the NPD should all vote against the government to defeat it in a movement of confidence.
Even if the deputy for the Green Party Elizabeth May had voted against the government and that the NDP had to abstain, it would not be enough votes.
The conservative chief Pierre Hairy criticized the speech, saying that the party had seen many “slogans and political discussion points, but no clear plans to do so”.
Hairyre continued by saying that the speech speaks of Reining in public spending, but has noted anything for specific savings, and said that if the government has made construction promises, it did not address pipelines or the oil sector.
“No specific plan to do anything, even if the Prime Minister said, we are in crisis to break our dependence on the American economy,” he said.
Having lost his conduct in the federal elections, Hairyvre has no siege in the House of Commons and is therefore not able to give the formal response of the head of the opposition which is given in this room. Rather, he spoke to journalists outside the room in the hall of the house. The former leader of the Conservative Party and current MP for Regina-Quits Andrew Scheer acts as an acting leader in the opposition while Hairy is waiting to run for a second chance at a seat in a future election.
The conservative chief, asked if his party would support the speech, said that the conservatives would propose an “constructive” amendment to add plans which would include the repeal of bill C-69, the government’s environmental assessment law.
“Our amendment will set up real plans rather than slogans and discussion points,” said Hairyvre.
The neo-democratic interim chief, Don Davies, has not yet pointed out how his party would still vote, but said that he thought there was “nothing really new”.
“It is essentially the policies that the Liberals have announced in recent months in large platitudes,” said Davies. “I would say that there are positive indications in this discourse of the throne that new Democrats can support.”
Davies said that this includes promises of housing, diversification of trade and the construction of a “strong and independent Canadian economy”, although he had concerns about a discourse which, according to him, was not “focused on workers” or focused on health care.
The last time a monarch made the throne’s speech in Canada was in 1977.
The speech is normally pronounced by the Governor General – the representative of the monarch in Canada – but after the federal elections, Carney announced that the king would pronounce this speech.
This comes at a time when US President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened Canada’s sovereignty by saying that the country should be the 51st state.
The king thought about what the crown symbolizes Canada, saying that it was a “symbol of unity”.
“It also represents the stability and continuity of the past to the presence,” said King Charles III. “As it should be, it is proudly a symbol of Canada today in all its richness and dynamism.”
The vote on the speech will probably not happen immediately, but once presented normally, it obtains about six days of debate.
– With Sean Boynton files from Global News