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. 

King Charles III in Canada: "I would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg people. This land acknowledgement is a recognition of shared history as a nation." pic.twitter.com/oy6iN1kDy9

— captive dreamer (@avaricum777) May 27, 2025

Well, what's good for the goose is good for the gander, Charlie. 

The whole point of bringing King Charles III over to deliver a throne speech was to assert Canadian sovereignty, so it’s curious that some of the first words out of his mouth denigrated Canada’s legitimacy.

“I would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg people,” said the King in his opening remarks to Parliament on Tuesday. His words were largely written by the government, but he can tell the government that he’s not comfortable reading them. Whether he did, well, we’ll never know.

He continued: “This land acknowledgement is a recognition of shared history as a nation. While continuing to deepen my own understanding, 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.”

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 works. 

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. 

They normalize the idea that Canada is illegitimate, and that its non-Indigenous citizens are occupants of lands to which they don’t belong. It becomes such a regular feature of life that when B.C. decides to restrict provincial park entry by race (for more than a quarter of the year, in the case of Joffre Lakes Provincial Park) and overhaul its mining industry rules, it’s shrugged off by enough people that the provincial government faces no consequences.

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The same goes for the Canadian fisheries, which are increasingly subject to race-based quotas and marred by apparent illegal fishing by individuals who claim their catch is covered by treaty rights. In Nova Scotia last year, federal officials said they didn’t know how much lobster was being harvested anymore. The province, which is becoming world-famous for its lobster wars, seems unperturbed: in the last federal election, it voted mostly Liberal, a nod in favour of the status quo.

Western governments are bizarrely engaged in a process of deconstructing themselves, and the movement is related to the transnationalist ideology that is replacing liberalism as the governing ideology. Divide everybody in society into atomized groups, and you can govern all of them without much trouble. 

Racialism, alphabet ideology, the intersectional ladder, DEI--it all has the effect of seeming to empower more and more people, but the real result is that every group is set against every other, and when any of them get too uppity the technocracy can crush opposition through censorship and other means. 

The first goal is to undermine the "privileged" by stripping them of their power and control over their own destiny through arbitrary rules; the next step will be the revolution consuming itself, where necessary. Bloodlessly, because technocrats don't like being messy, but the power is concentrated all the same. 

More Brave New World than 1984. 

Many or most of the people who jumped on the land acknowledgement bandwagon think of it as harmless and "nice," but the intent is anything but.