Kim Campbell Archives - Teaching Kids News Readable, teachable news. Fri, 04 Oct 2013 00:47:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://teachingkidsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-TKN_square_blk-32x32.jpg Kim Campbell Archives - Teaching Kids News 32 32 Some Prominent Canadians Vying For Changes To “O Canada!” Lyrics https://teachingkidsnews.com/2013/10/03/1-people-think-o-canada-lyrics-updated/ Fri, 04 Oct 2013 00:47:36 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=11124 When you sing your country’s national anthem, you may think the words never change.

But for O Canada!, Canada’s national anthem, they have been translated and changed and changed again.

Now, some people are saying O Canada! should be changed yet again, to be more inclusive.

Canadian writer Margaret Atwood and other prominent Canadians, including former Prime Minister Kim Campbell, want the line "True patriot love in all thy sons command" to be gender-neutral.

They say the word "sons" excludes women and the line should be changed to "in all of us command."

O Canada! was first written in 1880, in French. The words were from a French Canadian poem.

O Canada! was translated into English in the early 1900s. The English words were changed in 1908, to a less exact translation of the French words.

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