I'm John Batson with my good colleague, Gregory Copley, editor and publisher of Defense and Foreign Affairs.

Most importantly right now, the author of the new book, Noble State, in praise of monarchy.

The king in Canada for a few hours to open parliament, his conduct was stately, ceremonial, friendly, extremely pleased with the

ceremony that he witnessed, smiles on his face. Did that serve the purpose of knitting Canada

together again after a divisive election? It was profound. In fact, the Toronto Globe and Mail, the national newspaper,

which is not normally conservative or pro monarchy, said that it made Canada, the king's kingdom

and the Canadians were grateful to the king, essentially, and happy with the king. They were very

excited about this, because it did knit Canada together with a sense of unified identity

and purpose, and particularly in the face of the denigration of Canada by U.S. President Trump.

So that worked very well.

And what it is also enabled the incoming Prime Minister Mark Carney to do,

although he is from Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party,

and essentially Trudeau, I think, felt that Kani would follow his

ultra-left views. I think Kani has basically fooled the Liberal Party into getting the election

as its leader, and now as Prime Minister, he knows that his survival is absolutely linked to delivering

results to all of Canada, which means that he will be adopting as much of the Conservative

parties' policies as possible. In other words, emulating Pierre Pue d'Av. he has moved to have meetings with the premiers,

the what they call the first leaders of all of the provinces,

who have been agitating for some kind of renewed or redefined relationship with Ottawa at the centre.

And that's definitely been moving policy along lines which will support the anger and

disenfranchisement felt by the governments of Ontario, British Columbia, Saskatchewan

and the like, the Western Confederation of states who

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