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#CANADA: THE KING'S SPEECH. GREGORY COPLEY, DEFENSE & FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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#CANADA: THE KING'S SPEECH. GREGORY COPLEY, DEFENSE & FOREIGN AFFAIRS
OTTAWAY 1912

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0:00.0

This is CBS Eye on the World.

0:08.5

Here's John Batchelor.

0:11.6

King Charles III delivers Canada's speech from the throne on Tuesday this day in these last hours.

0:19.5

Underscoring, says CTV news, Canada's sovereignty amid

0:24.3

tensions with U.S. President Donald Trump. I welcome Gregory Copley, Defense and Foreign Affairs

0:32.1

at Adirn publisher, to comment on the King's speech, yes, but especially in the midst of what looks to be a friction that will now continue after the election.

0:45.0

Mr. Carney is the prime minister elected for the first time, member of parliament.

0:50.1

He is a former central banker, very much a Davos figure for these many years, Bank of England

0:56.3

Governor, Bank of Canada Governor, the head of a very large real estate firm, Brookfield,

1:02.0

I believe it's called.

1:03.7

In addition to that, as a younger man, he worked at Goldman Sachs, he's extremely well-educated,

1:08.8

and checks all the boxes for the cognizante.

1:14.2

And his victory in Canada is a measure of the smart set holding on to power.

1:20.9

However, there is this, as the CTV mentions, tension with the U.S.

1:27.4

And what does that mean for the immediacy of the King's speech and for going forward as we deal with a changing planet with regard to energy, climate, economy, and then there's the trade story.

1:41.6

Gregory, a very good evening, too.

1:43.7

The relationship with Canada is

1:45.3

intimate and longstanding. So many families that I'm familiar with came from Canada, especially

1:52.1

in my wife's family, came from Canada, moving down into Vermont and then Maine. So it's hard for me

1:58.8

to imagine these countries being different in some fashion.

2:02.7

How do you measure right now the King's speech, not only the fact that Charles delivered it,

2:10.7

the first sovereign, I believe, since the Queen Elizabeth, since his mother in 1957 is my memory,

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