A constitutional lawyer is seeking to strike down a 2022 Quebec law that abolished the mandatory oath of allegiance to the King for members of the province’s National Assembly, arguing the provincial government overstepped its constitutional powers. The lawsuit names the Attorney General of Quebec as the respondent and the Attorney General of Canada as an interested party. The law added a clause to the Constitution Act of 1867 stating that the oath to the monarch no longer applies to Quebec legislators. Several members of the PQ had refused to swear allegiance to King Charles III and were barred from sitting. The lawsuit argues that Quebec required the unanimous consent of the House of Commons, the Senate and all of the country’s provincial legislatures to abolish the mandatory oath.