Tories Backtrack On ‘O Canada’ Review In Face Of Public Outcry
Posted March 5, 2010 5:32 pm.
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O Canada, the Harper government is standing on guard for your lyrics after all.
Just two days after saying they would ask Parliament to consider restoring the anthem’s original gender-neutral wording, the Tories have done an about-face.
The government says it will no longer consider changing the words “all thy sons command’ – following a public backlash.
A Harper spokesman says his office has heard clearly from Canadians that they like the anthem just the way it is.
In a surprise move, Wednesday’s throne speech proposed reviewing the anthem to look at the original words “thou dost in us command.”
Politicians have been proposing a rewording of the anthem since at least 1990, but every proposal has been shot down as political correctness run amok.
