O Canada, the song that brings Canadians to their feet, tears to their eyes and pride to a country of patriots. So why would we ever want to change that? The conservative government has raised the question that it may need re-examining and possibly a change. Politicians have been proposing a rewording of the anthem's third line, "in all thy sons command", since the 1990's, but every proposal has been shot down as political correctness run amok. The reason that government officials have reopened this very sensitive topic is due to the Winter Olympics that has just recently passed. Watching the great women of our nation standing on the podium singing our anthem raised the concern that our anthem needs to be more gender sensitive. In my thoughts on this whole issue, I feel that everything in this world needs updating and I do agree with the thought of modernizing our country to fit today’s world. But at the same time our anthem lays tribute to the soldiers of the past that gave their lives to protect this country. There are now female soldiers in the Canadian Armed Forces and have been for awhile but I like the way the right-wing women's organization said it in a 2003 news release "REAL Women requests the Liberal government in Ottawa to address the real problems Canadians face, especially economic ones, instead of dancing to the tune of a handful of chronically dissatisfied feminists". That should be the case for every true blooded Canadian. Instead of talking about the anthem and distracting ourselves with petty little gender sensitive issues we should be worrying about the 56 billion dollar deficit that our country is holding or how the unemployment rate is hurting Canadian family’s across the country.