True North has obtained exclusive recordings from a school in the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board that reveal that ‘O Canada’ is routinely played in multiple languages other than English.
"Nobody really thought about whether it was allowed". Poor excuse. This is Canada. These are public schools and therefore the anthem should be in English or French. The anthem should be a way of showing national pride to those children of different backgrounds/cultures who now live in Canada. Would this happen in any other country?
By the way, there are lots of different ways to reflect diversity for children in school that won't displace the national pride these children should feel in being Canadian.
"Nobody really thought about whether it was allowed". Poor excuse. This is Canada. These are public schools and therefore the anthem should be in English or French. The anthem should be a way of showing national pride to those children of different backgrounds/cultures who now live in Canada. Would this happen in any other country?
By the way, there are lots of different ways to reflect diversity for children in school that won't displace the national pride these children should feel in being Canadian.