We’re honoured to have former long-term Toronto City Councillor (and sometime mayoral candidate) Tony O’Donohue on our RN/RC Board of Directors. Tony has been a staunch and active Canadian republican for many years. He was the applicant in O’Donohue v. Canada (aka O’Donohue v. the Queen) — a legal challenge to the exclusion of Roman…
Category: Canadian politicians
Choosing a Governor General
By Bruce Hicks August 1, 2014 The prime minister recommends to the Queen who should become governor general in Canada and, in the modern era, the Queen accepts that name without question. Upon appointment, the governor general is delegated all of the Queen’s powers, including the ‘reserve powers’ which he or she may, in certain…
Former Federal Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff uncomfortable with current oath of allegiance to the Queen
In his memoir, Fire and Ashes, Michael Ignattief recalls being surprised that the current Oath of Allegiance to the Queen, which he was required to take before taking office, included nothing about the people who had voted him into office. “Instead, as in all Commonwealth democracies like ours, I swore an oath to Her Majesty the…
Hearst still waiting for permission to drop mandatory pledge of allegiance to the Queen
It’s almost three years since, the small, predominantly French-speaking town in northern Ontario asked the province for permission to drop a mandatory pledge of allegiance to the Queen required of incoming municipal politicians. The town is still waiting for an answer. Councillors from Hearst, about 950 kilometres northwest of Ottawa, voted to ask Ontario’s Ministry…
Support For NDP MP Pat Martin’s Parliamentary Motion On The Monarchy
TORONTO – The newly-formed REPUBLIC NOW says it fully supports the Winnipeg MP who says it’s time for Canada to consider severing ties with the British monarchy and suggests his private member’s motion to strike her out of the citizenship oath is a small first step.