Would-be Canadian citizens set to fight oath to Queen

[shockedcanadian]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/would-be-canadian-citizens-set-to-fight-oath-to-queen-as-discriminatory/article13160104/


A small group of landed immigrants with republican views who have refused Canadian citizenship because the ceremony involves swearing an oath to the Queen will be in a Toronto courtroom on Friday, facing off with the federal government in an attempt to have this citizenship requirement declared unconstitutional....

“The inability to enjoy the benefits of citizenship – to hold a Canadian passport and to vote – are amongst the costs reasonably borne by individuals whose personal beliefs run contrary to Canada’s foundational constitutional structure,” a lawyer for the federal Attorney-General says in written arguments submitted in advance of Friday’s hearing.

[virgogal]

1. I never can understand this kind of thing. They come to

the country voluntarily and then want to change laws and traditions.

Why stay?

[Posteritatis]

5. It's almost like people who aspire to citizenship want to engage with the system. Imagine! (nt)

[shenmue]

2. Why do they have to swear an oath to Freddie Mercury?

[Locut0s]

3. Oh for goodness sake she's less than even an icon here...

Even in the UK she's just a constitutional monarchy, but here it's even less than that. Sorry there are bigger things to worry about than this.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

4. I'm all for cutting ties with the monarchy,

but this is the wrong group of people to be attempting this.