It’s true that we look like aliens. But we have something to say, argued his spokesman, Karim Al-Dahdah, in an interview on Tuesday’s Tout un matin program on the ICI Première airwaves.
Hours before the bill to make the controversial oath optional in the National Assembly was presented, the spokesman for the Monarchist League of Canada in Quebec denounced a one-sided public debate from which the monarchist vote was excluded.
Only one message had been hammered in, the oath was outdated, archaic, but nothing about the meaning of the symbol the Monarchist League had fought for since its inception in 1970.
We are supporters of Canadian unity, we cling to heritage, to Canadian symbols, to traditions, Mr. Al-Dahdah summed up, regretting an intransigence against the monarchy.
“Nothing is more Canadian than the monarchy…as Canadian as maple syrup, Niagara Falls, hockey. »
– A quote from Karim Al-Dahdah, spokesman for the Monarchist League of Canada in Quebec
Outdated for some, monarchy still represents a bond with history, traditions and folklore, explained this advocate of national unity. By definition, traditions are timeless, they are long-term, […] it is something that is part of our identity.
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In addition, Mr Al-Dahdah said he was shocked by certain information in the media that he believed to be false. We’re talking about an oath by the King of England, but he’s the Canadian head of state, he’s not a foreign monarch he’s defending. The monarch is the embodiment of the Canadian state, the rule of law, democracy.
When Charles III. When he became king he not only assumed the costume of Head of State of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, but also that of the Anglican Church, a title strategically remembered to stoke passions and bring back the old demons of the past and the PQ and to position Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon as a victim, martyr of the nationalist cause.
Last Wednesday, Prime Minister François Legault confirmed his government’s intention to pass a law abolishing the obligation for MPs to take the oath to King Charles III.
That day, the three deputies from the Parti Québécois could not enter the Blue Room because the sergeant-at-arms of the National Assembly had barred them from entering for failing to take the oath to the king. For her part, National Assembly Speaker Nathalie Roy stressed that it is up to the elected officials to change the rules, not the presidency.
The minister responsible for democratic institutions, Jean-François Roberge, will hold a press conference on Tuesday afternoon on the presentation of the draft law recognizing the oath provided by law to respect the National Assembly as the only binding assembly.