Commentary
My long-ago introduction to the Chicken Oath gives hope Quebec’s National Assembly will pluck up its courage and unanimously scrap swearing loyalty to the British monarch.
Premier François Legault has promised legislation this week to that end, meaning it might fly through the legislature on a wing and prayer to become law before MNAs head home for Christmas turkey and trimmings. The catalyst among the pigeons was the blockage of three Parti Quebecois members from taking their seats to do their democratic duty simply because they refused to pledge allegiance to a 73-year-old newbie king who got the job from his rigor mortis mum….