Canada's Carney offers strategic invite to King ahead of Trump meeting

In his archetypal quality league since the national election, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney laid retired his priorities, including however helium volition attack upcoming talks with US President Donald Trump.

His predetermination run focused connected lasting up to Trump's tariff plans and threats to marque Canada the 51st US state, which Carney has said volition "never ever" happen.

The Liberals won 168 seats retired of 343 successful Canada's House of Commons successful Monday's election, capable to signifier a number authorities but falling abbreviated of the 172 indispensable for a majority.

Carney's caller furniture volition beryllium sworn successful the week of 12 May.

Here is immoderate of what we learned from Carney's Friday quality conference:

Off the top, Carney announced an upcoming sojourn from King Charles III and Queen Camilla, who volition sojourn Canada aboriginal this month.

"This is simply a historical honour that matches the value of our times," helium told reporters gathered successful Ottawa.

Carney says helium had invited the King to formally unfastened Canada's 45th Parliament connected 27 May.

That petition is surely strategic.

Carney said the King's sojourn "clearly underscores the sovereignty of our country" - a motion to Trump's 51st authorities remarks.

Trump besides has a well-known admiration for the Royal family. In February, UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer utilized his travel to the White House to contiguous Trump with the invitation missive from King Charles.

The King is Canada's caput of authorities and is represented successful Canada by Governor General Mary Simon.

After an election, the caller parliamentary league is usually opened by the politician general, who reads the Speech from the Throne connected behalf of the premier minister. The speech, work successful Canada's Senate, sets retired the government's agenda.

While it is not unprecedented for the Throne code to beryllium work by the caput of state, the past clip this happened was successful October 1977 erstwhile Queen Elizabeth II work the code for the 2nd time. The archetypal was successful 1957.

Carney volition sojourn the White House connected Tuesday, hardly a week aft the national election.

His archetypal authoritative sojourn to the White House arsenic premier curate comes amid frayed ties betwixt the adjacent allies successful the aftermath of Trump's threatened and imposed tariffs, arsenic good arsenic the president's repeated comments astir making Canada the 51st US state.

Carney said determination are 2 sets of issues to discuss: the contiguous tariffs and the broader relationship.

"My authorities volition combat to get the champion woody for Canada," Carney said, making it wide determination would beryllium nary unreserved to unafraid an agreement.

He added that the high-level dialog indicates seriousness of the speech betwixt the leaders.

He said helium expects "difficult but constructive" discussions with the president.

He besides said helium would fortify narration with "reliable" trading partners, pointing to caller conversations helium has had with satellite leaders successful Europe and Asia.

Canada's predetermination highlighted divisions wrong Canada, on regional, demographic and governmental lines.

On Friday, Carney said Canada indispensable beryllium agreed successful this "once successful a beingness crisis".

"It's clip travel unneurotic enactment connected our Team Canada sweaters and triumph big," helium said.

He offered olive branches some to Canadians who did not ballot for his Liberal Party and to his governmental rivals.

While Canadians voted for a robust effect to Trump, they besides sent "a wide connection that their outgo of surviving indispensable travel down and their communities request to beryllium safe", Carney said.

"As premier curate I've heard these messages large and wide and I volition enactment connected them with absorption and determination."

He said helium is committed to moving with others, including those crossed the aisle.

Under person Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative run focused heavy connected outgo of surviving issues and crime.

The Conservatives came successful second, forming Official Opposition but Poilievre mislaid his ain Ottawa-area seat.

Carney said helium is unfastened to calling a peculiar predetermination that would let Poilievre to question different spot if that is the way the Conservatives wanted to take.

"No games," helium said.