Oath to the Queen
 

In today's Daily Telegraph there is an article about a guy, a naturalised Canadian, who has gone to court to challenge the requirement to swear the oath to the Queen. This would seem to be a fairly major charter issue. Why can't I find anything about it in the Canadian press?

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I'm sure there are lots of people out there who are happy to swear to the Queen ;)

Maybe needs to rumble on a few more stages in the system to make it newsworthy in Canada ?

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It's not in the Canadian press because it's not happening in the US.

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I found this, same thing???

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2...65508-sun.html

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I couldn't find it on CBC either. His comparison of the Queen with Hitler was pretty disgusting, and I'm no Royalist.

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Charles Roach is a lawyer; of course he's disgusting. More than that he's a kind of local Al Sharpton, always keen to get in the paper.

That said, I suppose in this instance he does have a point, Canada is about multi-culturalism; if people here want to be loyal to the Queen, or the Pope, or Osama bin Laden, or <struggles to think of a well known Canadian> or even Hitler, it's all equal, an oath to the Queen doesn't really make sense in the Canadian context.

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Thanks for finding that. I didn't realise they guy had previous. Maybe that's why most of the media is ignoring it.

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Gosh, I don't think I'd be happy doing that either. I'd feel like a fraud saying it.

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It just felt odd to me. I thought I already had lifetime membership to Club Liz.

While we're at it, could someone fix the first few lines of the anthem (English version)?

"Our home and native land"?

If it was, I wouldn't be at this ceremony, would I?

"..in all our sons command"?

Sex discrimination.

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The Queen is Queen of Canada and hence is a Canadian.

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then maybe the Queen is, in a way, a well known Canadian, but she's not well known for being a Canadian. Asked to name one, I think more people would name Celine Dion than the Queen.

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But not an Australian, at least according to the 1995 Commonwealth Parliamentary Library cited on wikipedia. According to them:

"The Queen does not fall within the categories of citizenship by birth, adoption, descent, or grant listed in the Australian Citizenship Act 1948. All Australian citizens are subjects of the Queen in right of Australia. The Queen cannot be her own subject, as one only exists in relation to the other, and the two cannot as such be combined."

Not sure about this really, but it's interesting enough.

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Yay. We happy few. Etc. *cough*

Outrageous. Militaristic too. That's it, I'm moving to Aus... ah, bugger.

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No oath, no Canada I say.

"I swear (or affirm) that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, Her Heirs and Successors, and that I will faithfully observe the laws of Canada and fulfill my duties as a Canadian citizen."

What is so hard about that? You want to live here then aknowledge your head of state and Canadian law. Simple.

Some people. So ungreatful.

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Oh yeah................I almost forgot.............."GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!"

Have nice day Y'all.