The airplane doesn't have a canard. It has a forward wing. It has no primary flight control surfaces, and isn't variable. It has flaps, but no primary pitch functions, doesn't change in incidence, or sweep. It's just a forward wing.
The airplane can be stalled with a stable, nose up descent at around 2,000 fpm and full aft controls. Rudder is still available and aileron control is still possible.
The Piaggio doesn't rely upon a download on the horizontal stab, and doesn't experience a drop in the nose during a stall; in other words, no traditional stall break. It doesn't geneally suffer from the same potential deep stall characteristics of other aircraft that use canard or forward wing surfaces.
Contrary to what some may believe, it's a very simple airplane to land. It lands like any light jet. The whole airplane is simple, from fuel management to flaps (which have three positions, despite several independent sets and a complex flap scheduling arrangement...for the pilot it's just up, mid, or down). If you can fly a king air, you can fly a piaggio. It just lands a little faster. It handles like any other airplane in the air. It's ground handling characteristics take a little getting used to, but if you can taxi a twin commander, you can certainly taxi a piaggio. It's just another airplane. It looks different, but it doesn't handle differently.