Changes both immediate and longer-term are coming now that Queen Elizabeth has died
Posted: Sep. 8, 2022 10:51AMFILE - Britain's Prince Charles arrives at a center for refugees fleeing the war in neighboring Ukraine, inside the Romexpo convention center, in Bucharest, Romania, May 25, 2022.may be after 70 years on the throne, it’s pretty much business as usual in terms of Canada’s governance.
In common law, Lagasse says, the Queen and King are “the same legal person.” That’s because the Crown is what is known as a “corporation sole.” That includes oaths of allegiance to the monarch, which are required in a host of cases, including becoming a member of Parliament or a member of the Canadian Armed Forces or a Canadian citizen.In days of yore, the death of a monarch meant that parliaments sitting in that individual’s name in the United Kingdom and its colonies, including those that eventually became Canada, were automatically dissolved and elections had to be held.
Dissolution by demise of the Crown was abolished in the U.K. in 1867 and the Parliament of the newly created Confederation of Canada followed suit in its first session the same year, according to Bowden. Historians and constitutional experts raised the alarm that this omission could plunge the province into an election upon the Queen’s death and potentially mean that all laws passed following her death would be scrapped.While the business of government in Canada will continue undisturbed, Lagasse says there are some formalities that will have to be observed.
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