I disagree with the honourable member on a couple of points.
First of all, this deference to the drafters.... We are drafters. We are lawmakers; that's what we do. Drafters can advise us, but we are the lawmakers, so it's our say and there is no reason why we have to defer to them on our adherence to the monarch of Canada.
Second, I would say to you that if that is the logic, that we have already sworn an oath to the monarch.... We have already sworn an oath to Canada, too, and yet the oath to Canada is there. I think that, in order to be consistent, we should swear an oath both to Canada and its people, and to the monarch.