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O 'Canada' Should Not Be Changed At All
The Canadian anthem “O' Canada” Should not be changed at all. The anthem is and always will be a big part of being Canadian, as well as the symbolism of Canada. The biggest thing that people remember as a kid growing is singing the national anthem in school every day and proudly standing in front of the Canadian flag. As Canada is a bilingual country it would be hard to transfer and make a new anthem that will be properly formatted for both languages without any uncanny expressions. Also as O' Canada has been the national anthem for over 32 years not there has been a lot of formal documents and government information that have quotes from the anthem. That will have to change as it would be irrelevant if the government of Canada has quotes from

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