As expected, the motion submitted by the Bloc Québécois (BQ) party to the members of the Canadian House of Commons to sever relations between Canada and the British monarchy was rejected. The motion was rejected yesterday by a majority of 266 votes while only 44 MPs approved it. Also, the House of Commons includes 338 members, 32 of whom are from the Bloc Québécois advocating for the independence of the province of Quebec from the Canadian federation. Conservative Party MPs, who form the official opposition, and the majority of the ruling Liberal Party MPs voted against the motion. While one Liberal MP voted in favor of the motion, Joel Lightbound, who represents one of the districts of Quebec City, the capital of the province of the same name, some of his Liberal colleagues abstained from voting, such as Thériault Martinez Ferrada, Chilean-born and representing one of the districts of Montreal, the largest city in Quebec. Also, the New Democratic Party gave its MPs the freedom to vote according to their personal convictions, and they were slightly more inclined to show support for the motion. For instance, the motion was supported by the party's deputy leader, Alexandre Boulerice, who represents one of Montreal’s districts, and Nikki Ashton, born to a former minister in Manitoba who is English-born and represents one of the districts of this province located in west-central Canada. In the same context, Jagmeet Singh, the leader of this left-leaning party, abstained from voting on the motion. Among the supporters of the Bloc Québécois motion, also outside its MPs, is independent MP Allan Riess, of Egyptian origin, who defected from the Conservative Party last month after party members elected MP Pierre Poilievre as their leader. Riess represents the Quebec riding of "Richmond - Arthabaska," which he won for the third consecutive time in the last federal general election in September 2021.