{"id":925823,"date":"2026-10-08T23:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T23:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/925823\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T23:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T23:00:11","slug":"pq-government-may-be-forced-to-swear-allegiance-to-the-king-if-constitutional-lawyers-injunction-is-granted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/925823\/","title":{"rendered":"PQ government may be forced to swear allegiance to the King if constitutional lawyer&#8217;s injunction is granted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The incoming Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois government could be forced to take the Oath of Allegiance to King Charles III if a constitutional lawyer\u2019s request for an injunction is granted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lawrence David, a professor at the University of Ottawa\u2019s faculty of law and president and founder of the Public Interest Litigation Institute, filed the application in Quebec Superior Court on Tuesday \u2014 one day after Quebec\u2019s provincial election. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe know based on public statements that the oath will not be taken, at least by a majority of the newly elected politicians,\u201d David said Wednesday in an interview with The Gazette, referring to the minority PQ government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The incoming Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois government could be forced to take the Oath of Allegiance to King Charles III&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":925824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,230663,120789,16622,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-925823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-parti-quebecois-pq","tag-quebec-elections","tag-quebec-politics","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/925824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}