Personally, I'd like it to lose the religion. There was a proposal to replace "God keep our land glorious and free" with "O Canada, glorious and free" that I liked.
Wasn't that how it was before they changed it in the 80s? They added "God keep our land" and "From far and wide" if I remember correctly.
I'm in favour of changing the canadian anthem to vocal trance mix. Then there would be no gender whatsoever.
There are tons of benefits:
1. Euro dance clubs will be playing our anthem all the time.
2. We will be the only anthem to say in the billboards top 40 for 10 months in a row.
3. When we go to war, people will be so hyped up on E and dancing with glow sticks that the enemy will join in and dance with us.
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O canada!
Our home and native land! [offensive to immigrants]
True patriot love in all thy sons command [offensive to women]
With glowing hearts we see thee rise [offensive to cardiac patients]
The true northstrong and free! [offensive to southern ontario][offensive to the oilers][offensive to the incarcerated]
From far and wide [offensive to agoraphobes]
O canada, we stand on guard for thee [offensive to the handicapped]
God keep our land glorious and free! [offensive to atheists, agnostics]
O canada, we stand on guard for thee [offensive to pacifists]
O canada, we stand on guard for thee
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I think the actual meaning of "True patriot love in all thy sons command" is that true patriot love should command all of the sons of Canada.
In this context, the original, "in all thou dost command" has a slightly different meaning: true patriot love should reside in all that are commanded by Canada - presumably all of the residents. Canada is personified here.
As such, a better modernization should be "in all that you command" (where you refers to Canada).
That's my take, anyway.
Nope they both mean the same thing.
In this case command is being used with the defintion being more like "Inspire".
Thus the line is
"True patriot love, in all thy sons/in all thou dost command"
which means
In all thy sons you inspire true patriot love
or
In all thou dost inspire trup patriot love
it's actually a little clearer with the "in all thou dost" bit, but the sentence is a little fronty/backy either way.
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Or, people can have an understanding that the original lyrics offer insight into the the original intent of the anthem.
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Feminism is all well and good, but I keep waiting for the moment when they want to change the word "woman" to just "wo" , so they can remove the man from it.
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Feminism is all well and good, but I keep waiting for the moment when they want to change the word "woman" to just "wo" , so they can remove the man from it.
Hmmm....asked my wife if this bugs her that it says "all thy sons command"...her reply: nope, its catchy.
We're also not overly religious, asked her if it bugs her that it references God...reply: nope, each to their own.
So our vote is keep it the same. This is the version we'll sing when we're at the Flames games.
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Feminism is all well and good, but I keep waiting for the moment when they want to change the word "woman" to just "wo" , so they can remove the man from it.
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explainthamedia got the word man in it. whats next, they want to change that? lame ass people with nothing better to do. i dont really care either way its just a fcking song. i just hate reading about people complaining all the time...
I am not sure I agree with the choice of words, I like this suggestion that was made in the thread:
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"in all that you command"
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