M. Grégoire2d ago

Trump's respect for King Charles possibly quashed desire to annex Canada, says royal commentator

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-king-charles-annex-canada-new-book-9.7153681

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Trump's respect for King Charles possibly quashed desire to annex Canada, says royal commentator | CBC News

An upcoming book authored by a prominent royal commentator says U.S. President Donald Trump was primarily interested in annexing Canadian territory just above the U.S. border — and his respect for King Charles may have quashed his interest.

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Show threadM. Grégoire2d ago

'"[Canada has] been a staunch ally through history, a gallant D-Day partner and attempting to acquire it would undoubtedly make the King of Canada unhappy," Hardman added. According to Hardman's recounting of the conversation, Trump paused at that note and asked the British journalist whether Canada still recognized King Charles as its head of state. "Do they still recognize the King? Or have they stopped that?" Trump said, according to Hardman.'

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Show threadM. Grégoire2d ago

Loyalty to the Canadian crown has always been a core value of English Canadian identity. The easiest way for an anglo to show the difference between being a Canadian and an American is for her to take a coin out of her pocket and to display the obverse.

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Show threadDeborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦
@mpjgregoire anglo here: never been a monarchist. Totally indifferent.
Apr 6 at 1:33pmWeb
Show threadM. Grégoire1d ago
@deborahh But you wouldn't deny, would you, that the main reason English Canada exists is because of loyalty to the Crown?
Show threadDeborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦1d ago

@mpjgregoire i'd call it "dependence on the crown", perhaps, in our early history. Dependent for governance and safety.

The people who came here left Europe for a reason ... and they were certainly not all English citizens! Some came for profit, or pkwer, but many came for safety, or in protest - because they were philosophically opposed (or disadvantaged) by the ruling structures in their home countries.

Show threadDeborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦1d ago

@mpjgregoire if you refer to the days of the "Loyalists" and the drawing of borders with the new US, I suspect that "loyalty to the crown" was just convenient short hand for "our team".

I guess I'm disconnected from that history, being the child of Europeans fleeing the mess of WW2.

Show threadM. Grégoire1d ago

@deborahh Yes, I am indeed thinking of the Loyalists — most of English Canada exists because of them [0]. They left the rebellious 13 colonies because of their loyalty to their government, to Crown and Parliament, not because they were especially fond of the Stamp Tax or the Québec Act. Modern English Canadians are heirs of the society the Loyalists established.

[0] Not Nova Scotia, Newfoundland or BC; maybe not PEI.

Show threadDeborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦1d ago
@mpjgregoire hmm. I really don't recall much about that period. Hey, I was a teen in a boring history class, it's understandable.
But "left the 13 colonies" … they didn't "leave anything. They "stayed" while the colonies "left", don't you think? This love of the status quo certainly seems familiar, LOL. Stay with the devil you know! 😂
Show threadM. Grégoire1d ago

@deborahh The #Loyalists left their homes and moved to the colony of Québec mostly; before the US Revolution, the area draining into the Great Lakes was inhabited (sparsely) by French settlers and the First Nations. Toronto, for instance, was founded by Loyalists in 1793.

The Loyalists who became Canadians mostly had lived in the colonies of New York and New England, other than the Black Loyalists, who (as I understand it) mostly came from the South.

#Canada #history

Show threadDeborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦19h ago
@mpjgregoire oh yeah! I forgot about them. Like the migration at the separation of India & Pakistan (but far fewer folks, I guess.)
Thanks for reminding me.