{"id":946570,"date":"2026-10-26T05:48:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T05:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/946570\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T05:48:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T05:48:44","slug":"a-watered-down-oath-of-office-anachronistic-before-its-time-ottawa-letter-writer-the-hill-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/946570\/","title":{"rendered":"A watered-down oath of office, anachronistic before its time: Ottawa letter writer &#8211; The Hill Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decision by newly elected Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois MNAs to remove all references to the allegiance to King Charles III from their oath of office will certainly have pleased the 87 per cent of Quebecers who feel no attachment to the monarchy, and, probably, virtually all those w&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>To keep reading, subscribe and become a political insider.<a id=\"subLinkStoryPage\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hilltimes.com\/get-a-subscription\/\" style=\"cursor: pointer;float: left; width: 100%; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif !important;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SUBSCRIBE NOW<\/a> Only $7.76 a week for an annual subscription. <\/p>\n<p class=\"playfair\" style=\"font-size: 11pt !important; font-weight: 600!important;  margin-top: 20px; float: left; width: 100%;  padding:; margin: 0; color: #252525;\"> Enjoy unlimited website access and the digital newspaper. <\/p>\n<p class=\"playfair\" style=\"font-size: 11pt !important; color: #000; margin: 0; float: left; font-weight: 900 !important; width: 100%;  padding: 10px 0px 0px 0px; margin: 0;\"> Cancel anytime. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The decision by newly elected Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois MNAs to remove all references to the allegiance to King Charles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":946571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-946570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946570","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=946570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}