A day before his investiture ceremony, Darwyn Lynn stared at a copy of the Oath of Allegiance to King Charles he was required to take to officially take on his new role of councillor in the Yukon, wondering why the pledge was necessary.

Council members of one Canadian town are refusing to pledge fealty to King Charles. According to a recent report from the BBC, Stephen Johnson—the mayor-elect of Dawson, City, located in the Yukon Territory in Canada—and newly elected council members are refusing to take the King's Oath and pledge allegiance to Charles.

New members of Canadian town council refuse to take the King's Oath for King Charles, and the refusal is in solidarity with new council member Darwyn Lynn, a member of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation.

A town council in Canada is at a standstill after its newly elected members refused to pledge allegiance to King Charles III as required in the swearing-in ceremony.

Stephen Johnson, the mayor-elect of Dawson City, said he and the four-member council refused to take Canada’s official oath to the monarch on Nov. 5 because of the Crown’s history with Indigenous populations.

Stephen Johnson, the mayor-elect of Dawson City, said he and the four-member council refused to take Canada’s official oath to the monarch because of the Crown’s history with Indigenous populations

Newly-elected Dawson City councillors had refused to take the oath, citing the British Crown's history with indigenous peoples.

The Yukon government has amended its regulation around taking the oath of allegiance to allow for elected town councillors to have an alternative to swearing to the Crown.