Journalist: King Charles’ Canada visit significant

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00:00Buckingham Palace has described this trip as impactful.

00:04This comes amid delicate relations between America and Canada.

00:09What are the main hopes and objectives for this visit?

00:15Well, hello to you, Leanne.

00:16This is a very short trip, just over 24 hours,

00:20but it is certainly going to pack a punch in terms of its significance and its symbolism.

00:25As we see King Charles, the King of Canada, jessing into the country,

00:31just as it is trying to fend off advances from the quasi-King of America, Donald Trump.

00:37Now, the King is going to have to employ all of those years of experience as a global statesman

00:43to walk the diplomatic tightrope,

00:47because he is being employed by Keir Starmer, the British Prime Minister,

00:51to try and ensure closer ties between Britain and the United States.

00:56At the same time as the new Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney,

01:01is calling on the King to bolster Canada's sovereignty

01:05and its resistance of Donald Trump's calls for Canada to become the 51st state.