Federal employees in Canada are to be freed from the requirement that they swear an oath of loyalty to “queen” Windsor. The Public Service Modernisation Act will remove the offensive requirement from Canadian law from 1 January 2006.
In a doubly bizarre arrangement Canada has a British so-called “queen” as its head of state. Republicans have have been denied employment by the federal government because of their inability to swear the feudal oath of loyalty to this person.