Quebec has tabled a bill proposing ignoring the Constitutional mandate requiring Canadian lawmakers to swear an oath to the sovereign.
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And for really foundational changes to the Constitution, it requires unanimous provincial support. Abolishing the “office of the Queen,” for instance, would need a signoff from all 10 provincial legislatures — making Canada the hardest country in the commonwealth in which to abolish the monarchy .Article content
The Constitution allows legislatures to amend their own provincial constitutions without federal approval. As the Constitution states, “each province may exclusively make laws amending the constitution of the province.”, Quebec doesn’t have its own written constitution. Just like Canada, the province’s founding document is the British North America Act.that Quebec could simply start rewriting the Quebec-specific parts of the British North America Act and nobody would be able to stop them.
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