TORONTO — The Ontario government said on Wednesday it was looking into rules requiring all municipal councillors to pledge allegiance to the Queen after an Indigenous councillor-elect refused to do so. “It’s inconsistent with my views regarding the relationship between the Crown and the Indigenous people of Canada,” Baillargeon said in an interview. “I would rather have pledged allegiance to Canada and its laws, Ontario and to the people of Hearst,” Baillargeon said. The oath issue also surfaced a few years ago in a failed challenge to Canadian citizenship rules, which requires a pledge of allegiance to the Queen. “So that’s where the government has got to jump and say, ‘OK, I think we have to do something about it.”‘

Source: National Post December 05, 2018 20:15 UTC