While some of the items in the throne speech were good ideas, and I sincerely hope that many of them get acted upon (including the wage and departmental budget freeze), there is one item that I actually thought "What the heck were they thinking" when I read it.
Wanna guess which one?
The government will, for example, seek to change the English version of the national anthem to make it gender neutral, possibly by replacing the line “in all thy sons command” with “thou dost in us command,” a line that was in the original lyrics from 1909.
Now, I know that I'm just one man, and that I should be disadvantaged because I have a penis, but I, as well as many other citizens both male and female, think that they should just leave the anthem alone. As one woman had noted to me already "Really? They don't have anything more important to do than this?"
And that's what it comes down to, Mr Ignatieff, Mr. Layton, Mr. Duceppe, and especially Mr. Harper... if this is important enough to be on your radar, to tromp on one hundred years of tradition in the name of political correctness, then I suggest that the prorogue should have lasted another 2 months. Obviously you don't have enough work to do.
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