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Originally Posted by browna
Plus, its also the English translation of Alberta's official slogan in latin.
Doesn't stop the elected Liberal(s?) from spouting off about it being American, I guess they don't sing the Canadian national anthem very often, either.
An article from last month that has more info that I just found:
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/...3-a64bcb6ebc93 |
Even worse a professor:
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"It wouldn't be so much a change of licence plate so much as a change in nationality," observed David Taras, a political scientist at the University of Calgary.
"Because those are words that ring in the American national anthem, on American licence plates, in the American Declaration of Independence."
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He was referring to the "Strong and Free" phrase.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/st...te-debate.html
This blogger sums it up quite well.
http://idealisticpragmatist.blogspot.com/