Canada May Adopt Gender-Neutral National Anthem
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March 05, 2010
Ottawa - “O Canada,” the country’s national anthem, has included the line, “True patriot love in all thy sons’ command,” for nearly 100 years.
Ottawa now wants to start a public discussion on whether Canada should adopt a gender-neutral version of the song.
As part of a policy speech unveiled on Wednesday, the minority Conservative government said it would ask Parliament to look at the original lyrics to the anthem.
Those lyrics, penned in 1908 by Canadian poet Robert Stanley Weir, read “True patriot love thou dost in us command.”
The version in current use was adopted in 1914. |
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