Permanent Residents and Pledge Allegiance

British colony: Indeed, it time Parliament revised the Immigration Act to toss out this relic oath from our days as a British colony and replace it with a modern pledge of allegiance to Canada.I say this after reading some nasty attacks last week against newcomers and permanent residents who feel exactly the same as I do, according to Toronto Star. Go home! Don’t come here. Surely, this country that champions itself as being a multicultural nation and an international leader in diversity should no longer require our new citizens to bow and scrap to a foreign monarch, even the current Queen who I and millions of other Canadians respect. This may not be the place for you. The trio had launched the constitutional challenge several years ago to the citizenship requirement that forces new citizens aged 14 and over to repeat and sign the mandatory oath to the Queen. Those insulting comments came in the wake of the decision by the Supreme Court of Canada not to hear an appeal in a case brought by three permanent residents who sought citizenship but didn’t want to swear an oath to the Queen. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.