Liberal MP preparing legislation to give parliamentarians choice to pledge loyalty to Canada and its peoples, or to swear oath to the king
A Liberal MP is preparing a bill to scrap the requirement for parliamentarians to pledge loyalty to King Charles III, giving them the choice to swear an oath to Canada instead., who is also Canada’s head of state. They can’t sit if they refuse. The obligation is written in the Constitution Act of 1867.
He told The Globe and Mail he expects widespread support for his private member’s bill, which he wants to introduce before Parliament’s summer recess. “This reform is long overdue and really about modernization,” he said. “I think all Liberal MPs would support it, as well as Bloc and NDP MPs. I think they would be in favour of choice.”
Parliamentarians’ obligations on the oath have been adjusted before. In 1905, a change allowing MPs and senators to make a solemn affirmation instead of an oath to the monarch was introduced.for its elected members.
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