Mr. Speaker, I just wanted to read from the House of Lords Hansard , when Lord Laird on January 3, 2003, asked Her Majesty's government:
Whether any new appointees to the Civil Service in any part of the United Kingdom are required to take an oath of allegiance; if so, which parts of the Civil Service require this...
The minister for the cabinet office and chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Lord Macdonald of Tradeston replied:
Under the terms of the Civil Service Code, members of the Home Civil Service owe their loyalty to the administration in which they serve.
No civil servant in the UK is required to take an oath of allegiance.
I also note there is no oath of citizenship in the United Kingdom to the Queen or anyone else. Why should Canadians be more monarchist than the British?