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Dror Bar-Natan

Canadian citizen: The Queen is a symbol of entrenched and outdated privilege and the pledge is tantamount to a hazing ritual, Bar-Natan said in an interview, according to Toronto Star. To become a Canadian citizen, I am made to utter phrases which are silly and ridiculous and offensive, he said. In a letter sent to the citizenship court judge earlier this month, Dror Bar-Natan states his opposition to the oath, which he calls repulsive, and his plan to renege on the pledge following his citizenship ceremony on Monday. I don’t want to be there. In upholding the requirement, Ontario top court said the Queen remains Canada head of state and the oath was a symbolic commitment to be governed as a democratic constitutional monarchy unless and until democratically changed. Bar-Natan, 49, a math professor from Israel who has been in Canada for 13 years, was one of three longtime permanent residents who challenged the constitutionality of making citizenship conditional on promising to be faithful and bear true allegiance to Queen Elizabeth the Second, Queen of Canada, her heirs and successors. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.