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Quebec adopts law making oath to King optional for elected members

Britain's King Charles III leaves after attending an Advent Service at The Ethiopian Christian Fellowship Church, in London, Thursday Dec. 8, 2022. Justin Tallis/Pool via AP

Quebec’s legislature has passed a law putting an end to the requirement that members swear an oath to the King.

The Coalition Avenir Québec government had tabled a bill on Tuesday making the oath to the monarch optional after three members of the opposition Parti Québécois refused to swear the oath and were barred from sitting.

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