Things are slowly tumbling towards some kind of critical confrontation on this. It can’t go on forever that the state allows the Québecois nationalists to blatantly undermine the constitutional order sheerly out of politesse
However it is of course what PSPP wants, to create some kind of inciting incident to justify a referendum
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In short, Quebec’s Lt. Gov., read the provincial executive, will for the first time in Quebec history will not be presiding over the swearing-in oaths of the newly elected cabinet. This move is a major move in severing the monarchy from Quebec, and as PSPP wrote in a letter to the Lt. Gov. “we firmly intend to abolish this monarchy in Quebec, both within our democratic institutions and in our civil society.” This follows after PQ MNA’s have also refused to take an oath to the monarchy rather they took an oath to the “people of Quebec.”
Naturally there is pushback, and today a judge is expected to rule on an emergency injunction on the PQ’s insistence on not swearing an oath to the monarchy; as mandated in the 1867 BNA Act a part of Canada’s constitution. The plaintiff, Lawrence David who is a constitutional lawyer and law professor, said that he would appeal the decision if he does not succeed in repealing Bill 4, which allows MNA’s to sit in the legislature without swearing an oath to the monarch. David has also filed another suit on this same manner in August; with the heart of both of these cases essentially saying Quebec cannot unilaterally alter the constitution without the consent of the rest of Canada. If the stay is granted, MNA’s will be barred from sitting in the legislature which is set to reconvene in November.
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Things are slowly tumbling towards some kind of critical confrontation on this. It can’t go on forever that the state allows the Québecois nationalists to blatantly undermine the constitutional order sheerly out of politesse
However it is of course what PSPP wants, to create some kind of inciting incident to justify a referendum
In short, Quebec’s Lt. Gov., read the provincial executive, will for the first time in Quebec history will not be presiding over the swearing-in oaths of the newly elected cabinet. This move is a major move in severing the monarchy from Quebec, and as PSPP wrote in a letter to the Lt. Gov. “we firmly intend to abolish this monarchy in Quebec, both within our democratic institutions and in our civil society.” This follows after PQ MNA’s have also refused to take an oath to the monarchy rather they took an oath to the “people of Quebec.”
Naturally there is pushback, and today a judge is expected to rule on an emergency injunction on the PQ’s insistence on not swearing an oath to the monarchy; as mandated in the 1867 BNA Act a part of Canada’s constitution. The plaintiff, Lawrence David who is a constitutional lawyer and law professor, said that he would appeal the decision if he does not succeed in repealing Bill 4, which allows MNA’s to sit in the legislature without swearing an oath to the monarch. David has also filed another suit on this same manner in August; with the heart of both of these cases essentially saying Quebec cannot unilaterally alter the constitution without the consent of the rest of Canada. If the stay is granted, MNA’s will be barred from sitting in the legislature which is set to reconvene in November.
Edit: Clarity
!ping Can&Law