MONTREAL — As he stood between wind-whipped Canadian flags on a podium in Iqaluit in 2017, Prince Charles recalled his official first visit to Canada's North nearly half a century earlier.
"I have never forgotten the warmth of the welcome from the Inuit people, which made me feel instantly at home, as indeed I have with all Canadians on my subsequent visits," said the Royal, who drew applause from the crowd in Nunavut's capital with a halting attempt at an Inuktitut greeting.
The jubilee tour began in St. John's, N.L., with a solemn moment of reflection on residential school deaths and ended in the North with a meeting with First Nations chiefs on climate change. His relationship with Canada stretches back to his first official visit in 1970, which included touring Manitoba and the Northwest Territories with other members of the Royal Family. During his more recent visits, he has been accompanied by Camilla, whose distant Canadian ancestry he has mentioned.
While Prince Charles' speech at the climate conference drew headlines, he's been delivering the same message for decades, including in Canada in 2009 when he described climate change as a "threat posed to all humanity.""Unless we can all, both individually and collectively, take the actions which we now know are necessary, the future is going to be very bleak indeed."
He is president of the Prince's Trust Canada, a charity which focuses on "preparing young people and members of the military and Veteran community for the transforming world of work, championing sustainable solutions for a green recovery and empowering our people and our partners to strengthen our collaborative efforts," according to its website.
As prince, he had to recover from the beating his image took in the 1990s following the messy public breakup of his marriage with his first wife Diana, and her death a few years later, as well as rumours of a more recent rift with his younger son, Harry.
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