7 October 2013
True patriot love in all of us command?
A group of prominent Canadian women have launched a campaign to make the English-language lyrics to Canada's national anthem more gender-neutral. The group, which includes author Margaret Atwood and former Prime Minister Kim Campbell, objects to the line "in all thy sons command". The women say a revision to O Canada's lyrics would "encapsulate the equality of all Canadians". Their campaign (click here for their website), also backed by Senator Nancy Ruth and former Senator Vivienne Poy, calls on Canadians to encourage Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government to alter the official English lyrics to O Canada. They would change the line to "in all of us command". The women say the English version of the song at one point contained the line "thou dost in us command", with that line revised in 1913 to "in all thy sons command". Maybe it is time to make the change. If Australia could remove the words "Australia's sons" from the first line of their national anthem, then so can Canada. Even Austria removed the sexist language from their national anthem effective beginning of last year.
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