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VIDEO: Margaret Atwood has a plan to improve the lyrics to “O Canada”

By Toronto Life

| October 2, 2013

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Should Canada’s anthem be gender-neutral? Literary goddess Margaret Atwood and former PM Kim Campbell think so. Their proposed two-word tweak (“in all thy sons command” would become “in all of us command”) even has a historical precedent. It does not, however, command true patriot love in NDP leader Thomas Mulcair, who is strangely adamant that no one mess with the lyrics. [Macleans]

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