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Liberals Obama-izing and feminizing National Anthem



With not much work to speak of other than trading off Selfies the way former generations traded baseball cards, Canadian MPs will today debate making Canada’s national anthem--“gender-neutral”. Rather than earning their keep, strengthening the weak Canadian dollar, or reassuring Canadians they really know what they’re doing by flooding their towns and cities with undocumented refugees, the Liberals are into an Obama-izing and feminizing Canada gambit. Rewriting lyrics is as easy as rewriting legislation to the Liberals who are now gung-ho to stamp out the line in the English version of Oh Canada “in all thy sons command with “in all of us command”.
Meanwhile only the Liberals who Canadians long ago nicknamed “the natural governing party” are in command. In an obsessed-with-gender Western World not even a nation’s anthem is sacrosanct. Hoping to hear resounding cheers from the feminists, one month before July 1 Canada Day, the Liberals come to the House of Commons with red pens ready to delete the politically incorrect “in all thy sons command” line. This is the 10th attempt to get rid of the line that has abysmally failed to date. You can’t make this stuff up: The Conservatives thwarted an attempt to pass the bill quickly in early May, which had Liberals accusing their rivals of taking away the chance for the bill’s sponsor, dying Liberal Mauril Belanger, who suffers from an incurable and fatal neurogenerative disease called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis – also known as ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease. (Global News, May 31, 2016) The stated intention of the Liberals being: to see his bill pass while he is still able to enjoy it. This is the same Liberal government who want physician-assisted suicide for disabled and Canadians falling ill in what they had hoped would be their golden years. “He introduced his private member’s bill in January using a voice generator that converts text into computerized speech, the first time one had been used in the Commons. (Global News)

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Since their return to power in October, the Justin Trudeau-led natural governing party have ignored all forms of communication from taxpayers who can not afford voice generators that convert text to computerized speech, on everything from undocumented refugees to physician-assisted suicide and Sophie Trudeau’s two taxpayer-paid nannies plus her desire for a second assistant. (Global News)
“Conservative MP Erin O’Toole said he sympathizes with Belanger’s situation, but is speaking against the bill because he does not believe Canada should change important parts of its heritage, even when they have fallen behind the times. (Global News) “He’s a friend and someone I admire greatly and seeing him struggle with ALS is tragic and a lot of us want him to be able to fulfil his duties as an MP, so we all want that to go forward, but we also have to look at the substance of the bill,” O’Toole said Monday. “O’Toole, who said he joined the military at 18 years old, said the institutions, symbols and heraldry of Canada are very important to him and should not be changed lightly. “I think it’s better for us to show the teaching issue here, on how the anthem is frozen in time and how we can learn from that, to show how far we’ve come,” O’Toole said. “But Belanger and others who believe the anthem should be changed have argued the amendment would in part restore the original English lyrics of O Canada, which referred to “thou dost in us command”. “The wording was changed to “all thy sons” in 1913, which Belanger said many believe was done in response to events leading up to World War I. “On the eve of the 150th anniversary of our federation, it is important that one of our most recognized and appreciated national symbols reflect the progress made by our country in terms of gender equality,” Belanger told the Commons on May 6. “This progress was slow and hard-won at times and it marked our country’s history. It should be celebrated in our national anthem.” “The previous Conservative government had proposed a gender-neutral anthem in the 2010 throne speech, but quickly backtracked in the face of strong public opposition.”

The idea to change the lyrics of O Canada to be more “gender-neutral” originates with a group of prominent Canadian women. “According to Restore Our Anthem, a group that includes writer Margaret Atwood and former prime minister Kim Campbell, these lyrics are exclusionary of women, and do not reflect the original intent of Robert Stanley Weir, who wrote the English words for O Canada in 1908. (Globe and Mail, Oct. 1 2013)
“The words “all thy sons command” in the English national anthem suggests that only male loyalty is being invoked,” Margaret Atwood said in a statement.”
Hard to know how Atwood, Campbell et al could possibly know what was the original intent of Robert Stanley Weir in 1908 when they weren’t even around. “Whether the federal governing Conservatives will take note of the campaign this time is not known, but in the 2010 Speech from the Throne for the governing Conservative Party under Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the announcement was made that Parliament would review the “original gender-neutral wording of our national anthem.” The move was also supported at the time by Senator Nancy Ruth, who is also a member of this new group (Radio Canada International, Oct. 2, 2013)
“However, there was an immediate backlash, with a poll suggesting three-quarters of Canadians were against a change. Two days after the Throne Speech, a spokesman for the Prime Minister’s Office said the anthem would be left as is. “As for this latest campaign, the Official Opposition NDP says the anthem is good as is. “New Democratic Party leader Tom Mulcair said yesterday in Ottawa, that the anthem shouldn’t be altered when it comes to gender.”
Margaret Atwood’s accusation that that “only male loyalty is being invoked” in Canada’s national anthem should make the Connie Francis song, ‘Where the Boys Are’, recorded in six other languages, an international lament, now that we know exactly where they are. Progressives of the day have demonized, biologically born boys and men. They have kicked them into ridicule in most product mass advertising and in television sitcoms, and are now insisting that any reference to them as fighters for freedom in all world wars is politically incorrect. Oh Canada!


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