Ahead of King Charles’ visit to Ottawa on May 27 to attend Canada’s state opening of parliament, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canadians did not like it when UK Prime Minister Mark Carney extended an invitation to Donald Trump for a second state visit, the first one was in 2019. Carney said it was an unimpressive move on the part of the monarchy under which Canada comes — given the circumstances of Donald Trump hammering every time that he wants Canada to be the 51st state. “To be frank, they weren’t impressed by that gesture, quite simply, given the circumstance,” Carney told Sky News. “It was at a time when we were being quite clear, some of us were being quite clear, about the issues around sovereignty.” Carney said that he made it clear that Canada is not for sale, and the invitation that Starmer presented to Trump while in the Oval Office “cut across some of those messages.” Carney conveyed the same stern message to President Donald Trump during the recent in-person meeting, and Carney also requested Trump not refer to Canada as the ’51st state’. Carney said that inviting Trump was the UK and Buckingham Palace’s diplomacy and his opinion does not really matter in this case. “I have an opinion on many things, some of which I keep to myself, the PM said. The visit of King Charles who is still undergoing cancer treatment is going to be historic as this would be the first time a British monarch has attended the event in Ottawa since 1977. “This historic honour matches the weight of our times,” Carney earlier announced, adding that Queen Camilla would join the visit.The visit is not a coincidence as it comes when Canada’s sovereignty as a country is being challenged by the US. “All issues around Canadian sovereignty [that] have been accentuated by the president, what he said, they exist in normal times as well,” he told Sky News. “So no, not it is not coincidental but it is also a reaffirming moment, will be a reaffirming.”