Last Week Today Episode 199 Show Notes for Tuesday, May 27th, 2025

Bloc Québécois Opts Out of Throne Speech, Israel Warns Tourists Against Canadian Travel, Pipelines, CUPW Strikes, the "Golden Dome," BC Parks Problem and Lot's of People Work in Alberta Healthcare.

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Bloc Québécois Opts Out of Throne Speech

We mentioned this in the May 25th, 2025 Roasting the Press segment on “Sunset Boulevard & “Symbolism” Revisited as King Charles Prepares for his Canadian Closeup.”

We asked our audience to:

Try not to get too wrapped up over our government’s belief that there’s no better way to assert national sovereignty, independence and democracy than having the ceremonial head of someone else’s country open the latest session of your national parliament in Canada’s Senate, the “upper” house of parliament, where everyone is appointed.

Charles won’t be speaking in the House of Commons, officially the “lower” house of parliament. where everyone is elected. Members of the lower house will be invited to view the speech from the sidelines.

Well, it looks like the Bloc Québécois agrees with us.

As outlined in the May 27th, 2025 Hill Times post, “Bloc Québécois slam Carney for inviting ‘foreign’ King to open Parlia…