Most of the other provinces have abandoned the explicit oath of constitutional allegiance for lawyers, or made that oath optional, although that’s kind of a funny thing to do with an oath if you think about it. My six or seven readers who are fellow atheist-monarchists ought to recognize that the “Wirring Question” is a legitimately hairy one. The oath of Canadian citizenship, like the oath in the statute governing Alberta lawyers, still requires a declaration of “true allegiance” to the King of Canada. Whenever that oath has been challenged in court, so far, it has been upheld on the grounds that this statement — while seeming to demand obedience to a living, breathing human being — is really just a symbolic commitment to the Constitution. (A republican, I suppose, can take such an oath in good conscience because it is a pledge to the King and his “successors,” who might not be monarchs at all.)