Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney criticized Donald Trump for a second state visit, saying that this has undermined his government’s efforts to project a united front against the President of the President of the Annex to Canada.
Since his entry into office in January, Trump has repeatedly said that he wanted Canada to become the 51st American state, a suggestion that has made Canadians angry and left Great Britain to try to cross a fine line between the two North American countries.
King Charles British is also head of state of Canada, a former British colony, and the monarch has made a number of symbolic gestures in recent months, carrying Canadian medals, planting a maple and referring to himself as the king of Canada.
Charles, who is still undergoing cancer treatment, should also attend the opening of Parliament by the State of Canada on May 27, the first time that a British monarch attests the event in Ottawa since 1977.
Carney, in an interview with Sky News, was questioned about the move of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in February to use his visit to the Oval office to give an invitation from the monarch for an unprecedented second state visit to London.
“I think that to be frank, they (Canadians) were not impressed by this gesture … Given the circumstance. It was at a time when we were quite clear about the problems related to sovereignty,” he said.
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Carney, who won a party race to become a Prime Minister in March before winning the Canada Elections last month by promising to hold Trump, said Charles’s presence in Canada later this month was by design.
“All the problems around Canada’s sovereignty have been accentuated by the president. So no, it is not a coincidence, but it is also a moment of reaffirmation for Canadians,” he said.
Starmer, who tries to improve trading links with the United States after Great Britain left the European Union, sought to play his forces when it comes to Trump, to talk about his safety expertise, to promise higher defense expenses and to offer the pump and the ceremonial that accompanies a state visit.
Trump, whose mother was born in Great Britain and who praised the British royal family several times, agreed with a bilateral trade agreement limited with London this month.
Asked about Carney’s criticism, British Minister Pat McFadden told Sky News that each country was to decide how to lead his relations with other countries.
–Report by Sarah Young; Edition by Jan Harvey
