Taking their lead from a 2014 court decision,an increasing number of people are disavowing their pledge to the monarch, a subject on which Canadians are splitOn a rainy afternoon in Montreal, and Lorraine Harrilal – sporting a 2008 Barack Obama campaign T-shirt and a shawl that paid tribute to Canada’s Aboriginal peoples – held up her fair hand alongside 20 others and took the oath to become a new Canadian.
Minutes later she broke absent from the group to carry out her first act as a Canadian citizen,handing a letter to the officiating judge that recanted 25 of the 43 words she had just recited.
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Source: theguardian.com