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Matt Gurney: Let the children sing O Canada

Posted: November 04, 2009, 9:30 PM by NP Editor

Canadian schools sometimes seem as prone to turn out stupid ideas as literate graduates, but some ideas are still dumb enough to warrant special mention. I’m looking at you, New Brunswick.

As the National Post reported today, dozens of francophone schools in New Brunswick have asked to be excused from the daily singing of O Canada, arguing there are other ways to teach patriotism to students. "It is nothing against the anthem or anything like that,’ said Hermel Mazerolle, director of administration and finance for District 11. ‘I think it's just not only the anthem that will put Canadian values into our families and kids.’"

So it’s not an attack on Canada as country, just an attack on common sense. I suppose that’s marginally better, but only just barely, because anyway you look at it, this idea stinks.

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