[Hot Air] King Charles III began his Throne Speech in Canada, which was intended to be a rebuke of Donald Trump's push to make Canada the 51st state (a supremely bad idea, by the way, although it almost certainly is a troll), began with a land acknowledgment, which amounts to saying that Great Britain stole Canada away from its legitimate possessors.
While Canada is a sovereign country, you may not know that it remains a constitutional monarchy and Bonnie King Charlie is its nominal Sovereign. He became so on the death of his mother and was proclaimed King two days after. He is already featured on their currency, as was Elizabeth. While his image is not yet featured on all their bills, that is in the work
So when he begins his speech from the throne with an acknowledgment that his ancestors stole the land, one has to wonder what moral standing he or other Canadians have to complain that somebody else wants to return the favor. Unless he is proposing returning Canada to the indigenous tribes who occupied the territory prior to the French and Canadians stealing it, he should at least understand the right of conquest.
Ask the Irish and Welsh about that. I'm pretty sure that the Malvinas came into British hands by means other than invitation, and that they wouldn't remain in British hands as the Falkland Islands without Ronald Reagan giving Queen Elizabeth II's government a hand.
Land acknowledgments are supremely stupid for anybody to do. King Charles isn't suggesting that Canada be returned to the tribes; nor, for that matter, that the descendants of William the Conqueror and his followers should leave England and return all that stolen land and power to the original inhabitants, whoever they are. The Romanized Britons? Perhaps the Celts? Maybe, instead of the Church of England, the Druids should be installed in Canterbury.
The ideology, though, has consequences. Here in Minnesota, the state government keeps giving more land and power back to the tribes. In Canada, the same process is happening, as the government keeps delegitimizing Canadian's right to rule themselves. 
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