Everyone knows by now that the behaviour of recently elected President of the United States, Donald Trump, elicits visions of a total dictator rather than a democratically elected president. Others compare him to an out of control ringmaster of a clown show.
Canada has its own problems with its recently elected Prime Minister, Mark Carney, who appeared on the scene with no political parliamentary experience at all and has also been compared to a dictator of sorts having headed the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England only recently elected as a rookie Member of Parliament.
According to the National Post’s, Christopher Nardi, on 23 May, 2025:
“They say that recent comments by Carney suggest to them that he doesn’t fully grasp the challenge at hand as his party sits two seats shy of a majority in the House of Commons”.
While Mr. Carney may not be the clown from Mara a Largo he is the equivalent of the rookie Major League Baseball player with no experience in the minor leagues first. This could get interesting.
One of his first moves was to invite King Charles to open the upcoming 45th session of Parliament with the speech from the throne. This in view of President Trump’s push for more tariffs and the declaration that Canada should become the 51st state. The end result could, of course, embarrass both His Majesty the King, who may not be amused, and our rookie Prime Minister.
In view of the above, the following was observed.
A recent television trailer caught my eye. It was about a graduation commencement speech to be delivered at the University of Maryland by none other than Kermit the Frog, who is apparently not classed as a foreign student, from the old Jim Henson Muppet show. In all probability Kermit’s speech was far more intelligent and thoughtful than any inaugural speech given at the White House.
Why? Because, apparently, Jim Henson was a graduate of that fine post-secondary educational institution. A degree in soft cloth puppets and comedy are a must in the modern geopolitical world it seems.
Now there is a truly novel idea. It fits both within the clown show unfolding in the United States and highlights what can be achieved when ordinary Americans are left alone to develop whatever ideas they can come up with, in the case of Mr. Henson, a true kingdom of comedy.
Now my suggestion would be to have His Majesty stay at home, relax in his gardens and deal with his current health problems and let the professionals open Canada’s Parliament. He doesn’t need the frequent flyer points acquired from a flight to We The North!
Instead of His Majesty, let’s invite Miss Piggy to give the Speech From the Throne. She was always endowed with great insight and spunk on television, although I never did know what she saw in that frog! She will be speaking to her kind of people – gluttons with privilege.
We are constantly bombarded by the postmodernist types accusing Canadians as being people of privilege, well, here is a room full of them and they won’t be able to just get up and leave if the speech gets a bit testy!
Perhaps they could elect Animal along with his drum kit as Speaker of the House. Now that would be a real and fitting prelude to the clown show that will inevitably follow!