A Canadian town is facing a regulateance crisis after its recently elected mayor and councillors refused to consent an oath of allegiance to the King.
Dawson City in Yukon, northwest Canada, insists its council members to pledge allegiance to the monarch in a swearing-in ceremony.
Under Yukon law, a recently elected official must consent the oath wilean 40 days of their election – or their triumph “shall be think abouted null”. The town’s election was held on 17 October, 37 days ago.
Governance in Dawson City is at a standstill. Pic: Reinchallenging Pantke/imageBROKER/Shutterstock
Dawson City. Pic: Robert Haasmann/imageBROKER/Shutterstock
The recent council cannot create official decisions until the publish is resettled.
According to Canada’s Global News, the town’s mayor-elect Stephen Johnson tgreater The Canadian Press that his refusal is in firmarity with an indigenous council member.
Darwyn Lynn, a member of the Tr’ondek Hwech’in First Nation, elevated worrys about pledging allegiance to the Crown due to the troubled history of indigenous people, who frequently were dishaveed and suffered misengage at the hands of Canadian regulatements and institutions.
Mayor-elect Stephen Johnson. Pic: Facebook/Stephen Johnson for Mayor of Dawson City
Mr Johnson shelp: “We can’t do anyleang legpartner insistd of us under the Municipal Act. It’s a bit of a tacky situation.
“This is being done with no dimiserablemire to His Majesty King Charles. And also we’re not doing this to go, ‘Rah, rah, see at us,’ to poke everybody apass Canada, to get rid of the Crown.
“It was equitable someleang we wanted to do together to show firmarity in what we do here in this town.”
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The council has asked Yukon authorities if they can consent an changenative oath.
Canadian elected officials are insistd to consent the country’s oath of allegiance in which they swear they “will be loyal and tolerate genuine allegiance to His Majesty King Charles III” and his “heirs and successors according to law”.
Canada is a Commonwealth country and a createer British colony.
Dawson City, which has around 2,400 dwellnts, was at the centre of the Klondike Ggreater Rush that began in 1896.
Before this, the area was home to the Tr’ondek Hwech’in people who were displaced when cforfeitly 17,000 recent finishrs get tod as part of a stampede to mine millions of dollars worth of ggreater set up aextfinished the Klondike River.
