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TORONTO — Canadians basked in glory hearing their national anthem played a record 14 times at gold medal ceremonies at the Vancouver Winter Olympics. But they raised an outcry when the Conservative government announced it was considering changing a lyric to “O Canada.”
Just two days after sparking the furor, the government announced Friday that it has withdrawn its request to Parliament to have the lyric “in all thy sons command,” adopted in 1980 legislation, replaced with the original 1908 line, “in thou dost us command.”
