Canada may adopt gender-neutral national anthem

My wife and I learned the new version, only to be corrected by our Canadian friends. I've never explored past the first verse, so I can't speak to this particular piece of PC idiocy.

Nobody seems to care that the first verse runs "O Canada, our home and native land/ true patriot love in all thy sons command./ With glowing hearts we see thee rise, the True North Strong and Free, {old words: "And stand on guard, O Canada, we stand on guard for thee."} [new words, "From far and wide O Canada, we stand on guard for thee] {old words "O Canada, Glorious and Free" etc} [new words "God keep our land Glorious and Free, O Canada we stand on guard for thee, O Canada we stand on guard for thee."]

Part of the problem was it was written in French first, and didn't catch on until almost the Second World War, probably because it's a nice enough tune, but the English Words were awful. Before that the anthem was "The Maple Leaf Forever" which was the anthem for the Boer War, and World War 1. It was deemed to jingoistic and subservient to the British Empire. "In days of yore from Britain's shore /Wolfe the dauntless hero came and planted firm Brittannia's flag on Canada's fair domain." commemorates the defeat of the French on the Plains of Abraham above Quebec City in September of 1758, a battle in which both General's, Wolfe on the English side, and Montcalm on the French, were killed. In the States we called the conflict the French and Indian Wars, but it was in truth the first World War, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Years%27_War
involving a dozen or more different countries and tens of thousands of combattants and stretching from India westward to North America and the Caribbean.

French Canadians preferred Alouette (the Lark) in both world wars, which has no jingoism or reference to home country at all; then again, a lot of them preferred not to fight at all causing major political crises in Canada during both World Wars. Those who did fight fought extremely well. Les fusiliers de Montreal, La Regimente Vingt-duexieme, or the Van Doos carried themselves extremely well in both wars, and were rather irritated with their compatriots in the province of Quebec who refused and made such a fuss.

Rob

so why not Canada?

........ that some (too many, IMO) feminists were demanding that anything God be changed from "He" to "She".

Angeline