Now that the Olympics are over, our attention is finally turned to our increasingly inept government. They are a very entertaining bunch of clowns. The problem is, the entertainment is paid for with our own tax dollars, and that takes the fun away. But, let me explain what happened.
The government introduced a new budget for the next fiscal year. The budget is always preceded by the Throne Speech, in which our Governor General, who represents the Queen, reads the speech provided by the government and not the Queen. The speech is supposed to outline the direction to which the government plans to take us, and initiatives they plan to take. Since the country, like the rest of the world, is still recovering from recession, with pretty high unemployment, it is of the paramount importance for the Conservative government to tackle the problems in the order of importance. Therefore, they announced in the Throne Speech that they will promptly change the lyrics of the national anthem into more politically correct version. Or, rather, gender-correct version.
Here are the lyrics we all sang only a few days ago during the Olympics, which made us all so proud of our athletes and our country:
O Canada!
Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy SONS command
Well, it turns out someone in the government thinks that women are being bypassed by this gender specific verse, and want it changed. The outcry from the public is such that even our not-so-sharp Prime Minister Mr. Harper and his cabinet issued a statement backing off from that idea. As a listener summed up on CBC radio news: with the country facing so many problems - deficit in billions, unemployment, almost nonexistent economic growth - our government outlines changing the anthem as their priority? This is not only stupid, it's an insult to all of us, voters!
I couldn't have said it better myself!
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