Anthony Burgess deliciously described Canada as the colony that stayed at home to look after mother

I hate it that the King referred to 'the government' not 'my government'. I'm sorry that Mr. Carney, when he chose to visit Europe for his first foreign visit rather than Washington, visited Paris before London.

The last Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wore Adidas Gazelles for the King’s speech to the Canadian Parliament. 

I suppose it's a gesture of lack of respect for British colonialism and the monarchy. 

His father as a boy allegedly wore a German First World War helmet as a prank during the Second World War but this story is probably inaccurate. What is true is that the Trudeaus were probably the worst evil to befall Canada, though the elder Trudeau was a very clever man, unlike his son.

1957 was the last time the Sovereign opened the Ottawa Parliament. No-one would have dressed improperly then. Morning dress was the rule.

In 1885, by the way, the great Canadian Tory Prime Minister Sir John Macdonald told the House of Commons that, if the Chinese were not excluded from Canada, “the Aryan character of the future of British America should be destroyed …”