At Confederation Building in St John’s he delivered a speech that included comments on Indigenous peoples when he travelled to Canada in May as part of the celebrations of the Queen’s platinum jubilee. (POOLGETTY IMAGES) By Morgan Lowrie THE CANADIAN PRESS 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 Charles, who drew applause from the crowd in Nunavut’s capital with a halting attempt at an Inuktitut greeting. On that trip and those before them, Charles has
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