It's been a long-standing joke on social media that Canada is not a real country. And frankly, Canadians don't do a whole lot to dispel that joke. While President Trump likes to troll them about becoming the 51st state, they respond by ... renaming a cup of coffee. When former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau couldn't handle Trump's ribbing, he went and tattled to the U.K.'s King Charles III.
And whatever you do, don't remind Canadians about the last time a team from their country won the Stanley Cup. They REALLY don't like it when we do that.
Of course, just the fact that Canada still considers the King of England as their head of state is sort of a dead giveaway all by itself.
This week, that monarch paid a visit to his subjects as King Charles delivered a 'Speech from the Throne,' a ceremonial address that marks the opening of a session of the Canadian Parliament.
Except no one paid any attention to what Charles said in the speech because he opened his address with ... wait for it ... a land acknowledgement. Watch:
King Charles III opens his throne speech with a land acknowledgement:
— Western Standard (@WSOnlineNews) May 27, 2025
"It is my great hope that in each of your communities and collectively as a country a path is found toward truth and reconciliation in both word and deed." pic.twitter.com/ryChVvS7Bw
Good Lord. Have some self-respect. You're the King of England. Granted, the U.K. is a shell of the global empire it once was, but are there no limits to how much a modern-day kind will base himself before the mob?
(It should be noted that the speech was not written by Charles's staff, but by the staff of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's office. But the king still read that humiliating opening.)
However, if we pay close attention to Charles' land acknowledgement, we're pretty sure he answered the question once and for all that Canada is not, in fact, a legitimate country.
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Whether he meant to or not.
Charles Windsor acknowledged today that Canada is an illegitimate state by stating that he is on unceded land while in the capital. Every level of Canadian government agrees that they should not exist. The country is thus legally a terra nullius, & open to annexations. https://t.co/1eoKoJptkT
— Nemets (@Peter_Nimitz) May 27, 2025
Open to annexations, you say? Did we just detect an orange eyebrow being raised all the way from Mar-a-Lago?
So is he saying Canada is illegitimate? https://t.co/AZGmeCYfCs
— Nick Chaconas (@NicholasChacon9) May 28, 2025
It sure sounds that way to us.
Send in the tanks. https://t.co/LrW2HuxHqO
— New York Young Republican Club 🇺🇸🗽 (@NYYRC) May 28, 2025
Do you think we'd even need them? A few infantry platoons might do the trick.
From the river to the sea
— Evan Gelion (@evan_gelion_69) May 27, 2025
South of the Saint Lawrence will become the land of the free 🇺🇸 🦅 https://t.co/4FMr5hQyvn
HA!
We like that a lot better than the other chant.
the crown doesn’t claim it. no one claims it
— zxy (@zelinarxy) May 27, 2025
to the strongest https://t.co/rjJxFeapLk
We have no interest in making Canada a state and giving all of those leftist hosers the right to vote in our elections.
But a non-voting protectorate might work. There are a lot of natural resources in the Great White North, after all.
Why would Canada care about being annexed into the United States? They don’t even acknowledge their own right to exist. https://t.co/BOjKfSxBxW
— Logan Dobson (@LoganDobson) May 27, 2025
Aside from having better hockey teams, we also have better coffee and donuts.
Sorry, Tim Horton's fans, but it's true.
Day of the Rake soon https://t.co/Vp0eYhPXfF pic.twitter.com/vSOdwYAfAq
— 🇺🇸 HellJumper (@FeetFirstToHere) May 28, 2025
Now pic.twitter.com/YNZXL330jA
— Jay Fivekiller (@JayFivekiller) May 27, 2025
National Fall Foliage Week arrives at the end of September. That would be a great time for the invasion.
Alternatively, we could announce a partnership with some of the Canadian Native tribes to hand over control of the land, seeing as how King Charles said it belongs to them.
Canada is now legally US territory. The King granted it. https://t.co/FfRJFQJn4f
— Dr Bixter E Neudels, Esq (@theBixterN) May 28, 2025
MANIFEST DESTINY TURNS NORTH https://t.co/ISUf7wiI7h
— Likes-To-Fight-Guy (@AngryJingoist) May 27, 2025
LFG boys https://t.co/ntAPURbdG3 pic.twitter.com/Bfklzc0WjI
— David Hines (@hradzka) May 28, 2025
LOL.
In all honesty, though, U.S. rule of Canada can't be any worse than their current government, where MAID is rapidly climbing up the charts to become of of the leading causes of death.
https://t.co/1Uq8EvDuB6 pic.twitter.com/vuAqBxxnKQ
— Dilios (@dill_recommends) May 28, 2025
liberation time https://t.co/LkK5I9SwWf pic.twitter.com/SFqQXqNB5t
— deal (@dealbakerjones) May 27, 2025
The first thing we should do is declare Canada Day to be a silly, unsanctioned, and defunct holiday.
Canadians try to have things both ways and end up with a confused national ID. Doing land acknowledgements—a sort of self-flagellation for settler-colonialism—whilst also being nationalistic about Canada—which involves embracing their British heritage—is inherently contradictory https://t.co/Gb0YdsldXh
— Pete (@post_liberal) May 27, 2025
As conservative commentator Matt Walsh often says, Canada does not have a coherent national identity. The only identity they embrace is 'We are not America.'
Which is not an identity. It is just cope.
And sure, they may say that. But we all know they secretly hope we will save them from themselves.
The truth is, that will probably never happen. But the joke hasn't gotten old for us yet. And it ever will.
So, we thank King Charles III for telling everyone what we already knew: Canada is not a real country.
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