Wyatt Claypool breaks down the Queen s Throne Speech and why it was a terrible idea. He also explains why the King should have been the one to deliver the speech, and why we should have had a British tourist read it.
00:00:00.000Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. Before I get into the main topic of this video today, I just gotta say, isn't it absolutely insane that it is currently late May in 2025, and this is the first time Canada's Parliament has been brought into sitting during the entire year so far.
00:00:21.320We're almost halfway done the year, and we are only getting our representatives back into the House Chambers now.
00:00:30.000Whatever, I digress. So yesterday was the throne speech that opened Parliament back up, and right off the bat, I am going to say Mark Carney was smart, it was politically smart, to have King Charles deliver the speech.
00:00:45.080Now also, it was very politically stupid for him to have King Charles deliver this particular speech.
00:00:52.760This is a speech the Governor General should be delivering. It's partisan, it's really kind of bureaucratic and tepid, and you have King Charles reading it, makes it just seem like all the cheaper.
00:01:06.840Having someone like that, the literal King reading this thing, makes it seem kind of dumb?
00:01:12.480Why would you have him show up here and just start listing off liberal partisan priorities?
00:01:18.240Like, let's get to the worst part of this speech right off the bat here, which is King Charles doing effectively a land acknowledgement.
00:01:26.900I would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the unceded territory of the Algonquin and the Shinabeg people.
00:01:37.700This land acknowledgement is a recognition of shared history as a nation.
00:01:43.280While 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.
00:02:01.940Well, that's not going to happen anytime soon, because apparently it's still considered bad to point out things like the Kamloops grave hoax is in fact a hoax.
00:02:12.360We always end up skipping out on the truth part, and then we want to cut over to the reconciliation part.
00:02:17.240But there's never really true reconciliation, because you always have to stay on the treadmill of always having to do something extra.
00:02:22.860But let's just digest that for a second.
00:02:25.760We had the King of Canada, I know he is the King of England, but he's also the King of Canada, comes and talks about unceded territory.
00:05:23.560And it will lower the GST on homes between $1 million and $1.5 million.
00:05:31.160Even with him sitting there with it in his hands, it looks like, again, we had a British tourist show up and we just stuck a panful in his hand.
00:06:43.800Like, have him make a speech after the governor general about why government's important and why we all need to be unified and whatnot.
00:06:50.560And yeah, like, was the speech necessarily terrible?
00:06:54.260No, but it should have been delivered by the governor general.
00:06:57.420Is it smart politics by Mark Carney for bringing the king and associating himself with the monarchy, which especially a lot of eastern Canadians are very warm to?
00:07:07.520At the same time, I think over time, a lot of people are not exactly going to be looking back on the speech very fondly, especially if the liberals fail to deliver a bunch of promises.
00:07:18.260You just have the king read a bunch of lies that you didn't want to have to read yourself.
00:07:22.860You didn't want to have to put your own name to.
00:07:24.460So Charles is saying the government's going to do this, not us.
00:07:28.020Not that they would obviously actually try and present it that way.
00:07:30.420But the whole thing just seems very hollow.
00:07:35.240It's just trying to make them, they're just trying to make themselves seem, I don't even know what you'd say about it, like more patriotic because we brought the king in.
00:07:45.260But here's Pierre Polievre's response to the speech.
00:07:48.920Melissa Lansman, we join today in thanking His Majesty for coming to Canada and delivering the throne speech, reinforcing our ancient great British liberties, a parliamentary system that goes back 800 years.
00:08:04.640A system that has served Canada well and has been the foundation of what I love to call the Canadian promise that anyone who works hard gets a great life in a nice, affordable house on a safe street.
00:08:17.320And that's kind of the effect that I think Carney's like meant to have.
00:08:20.800It's harder to criticize the speech when it's the king doing it if you're in parliament and frankly, you come from circles that are very pro-monarchy.
00:08:28.420Like, here's even the NDP reacting to it, who I always thought was supposed to be like the anti-monarchy party.