Stephen Johnson, the mayor-elect of Dawson City, said he and the four-member council refused to take Canada’s official oath to the monarch because of the Crown’s history with Indigenous populations
King Charles III visits the Coronation Food Project hub, in London, on Nov. 14. Governance in a small town on the banks of the Yukon River has been at a standstill since its newly elected mayor and council refused to pledge allegiance to the King during their swearing-in ceremony.Governance in Yukon’s second-largest municipality has been at a standstill since its newly elected mayor and council refused to pledge allegiance to King Charles during their swearing-in ceremony.
“We can’t do anything legally required of us under the Municipal Act ... so we are sort of, kind of council, and I’m sort of, kind of the mayor,” Johnson said.Johnson said under the Yukon’s Municipal Act, elected officials are required to take the Oath of Allegiance and an oath of office. That means a deadline of around Dec. 10, said Johnson. He added that the territory has indicated it wants to avoid a byelection.
Johnson said Lynn is a member of the Tr’ondek Hwech’in First Nation, on whose traditional land Dawson is located. “News spread like wildfire of a land where ‘nuggets could be picked off the creek floor’ to a recession suffering world and caused an unprecedented stampede of an estimated 100,000 people to set out to the Klondike,” the website says.This is not the first time Canada’s leaders have questioned the Oath of Allegiance.
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