Jason Bird chuckled when asked about the fuss that singer Jully Black has raised by changing a line in Canada's national anthem.
Posted: Feb. 22, 2023 9:54AMJully Black is photographed in Toronto on Friday, Jan. 17, 2020. Black made a small change to the lyrics of
“It’s kind of a commonplace thing in Indigenous communities,” he said. “You would change that lyric, more for fun than anything.” University of Calgary sociologist Cora Voyageur, a member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, called Black’s version “stating a fact.”If nothing else, some heard Black’s version as a way to lever open a conversation.
“People, in their own way, like to make statements that contribute to reconciliation,” Jedwab said. “There’s some value in trying to recognize who we are, properly.”Bird said he would prefer that conversation take place on economic and political reconciliation, but symbols have their value. The Canadian Encyclopedia lists at least three versions before the 1908 words that finally caught on. Even that one was adjusted over the years, most recently in 2018 to replace “in all thy sons command” with “in all of us command.”
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