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[87] [88] In 2005, Senator Raymond Lavigne uttered the words, "and to my country, Canada," at the end of the Oath of Allegiance, which raised questions from other senators and Lavigne was instructed to take the oath again, without the amendment. Following this, the Senator proposed that the Senate rules be changed to add an oath to Canada after ...
Joseph Allen Harris (July 8, 1900 – February 6, 1972) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1933 to 1937 from the electoral district of South Okanagan, a member of the Liberal party. He did not seek a second term in the Legislature in the 1937 provincial election.
The Oaths Act, 1873, was a statute passed by the Parliament of Canada in 1873 which authorized any committee of the Senate or House of Commons to examine witnesses under oath. The enactment was subsequently disallowed by the government of the United Kingdom as it was deemed ultra vires .
On being Canadian, Speaking of Canada, Confederation on the march: Elan Mastai: screenwriter, novelist The F Word, All Our Wrong Todays: Carol Matas: 1949 novelist After the War, Daniel's Story: Shirlee Smith Matheson: 1943 Suzette Mayr: 1967 novelist Monoceros, The Sleeping Car Porter: John Bentley Mays: 1941 2016 journalist, novelist, memoirist
Prior to 1947, Canadian law continued to refer to Canadian nationals as British subjects, [4] despite the country becoming independent from the United Kingdom in 1931. As the country shared the same person as its sovereign with the other countries of the Commonwealth, people immigrating from those states were not required to recite any oath upon immigration to Canada; those coming from a non ...
Joseph William Allen (1803–1852), English landscape painter and art teacher; Joseph H. Allen (1821–1884), colonel in the American Civil War and Supervisor of Brunswick, New York; Joseph G. Allen, public health expert; Joseph P. Allen (born 1937), NASA astronaut; Joseph P. Allen (psychologist) (born 1958), American psychologist and academic
Benner v. Canada (Secretary of State), 1997 [117] The Supreme Court ruled that children born of Canadian mothers abroad prior to 15 February 1977 were to be treated the same as those of Canadian fathers (i.e., granted citizenship upon application without the requirements of a security check or Oath of Citizenship). Canada (Attorney General) v.
Nancy Bauer (born 1934), American-born, living in Canada since 1965, wife of Bill Bauer; Doug Beardsley (born 1941), poet and academic; Nérée Beauchemin (1850–1931), francophone poet and physician; Derek Beaulieu (born 1973), poet, publisher, and anthologist. Joseph-Isidore Bédard (1806–1833), poet, lawyer, and politician