Abstract
ABSTRACT Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, the agency responsible for naturalizing new Canadians, requires applicants to recite the oath of allegiance to Canada. Adam Lovett (2023, “Should Canada have oaths of allegiance?” Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, 30(2), 216–220. May 29th, https://doi.org/10.1080/11926422.2023.2214253) argues that allegiance oaths treat naturalized citizens differently from natural-born citizens by placing additional obligations on the former. For Lovett this is also a matter of distributional justice, and has called for removing the allegiance oath. As a rejoinder to Lovett, this paper’s essential argument is that there is more than one way to view the allegiance oath and using only one conceptualization of the problem leads to only one answer to the problem, i.e. removing the oath as Lovett suggests.
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