I’ve read a few comments about this here, and found it to be hideous as an issue, at best.
But the media finds it necessary to conduct a poll about it, no doubt hoping for an answer quite different than the one they got.
65% of Canadians find ‘God bless Canada’ an acceptable way for Harper to end speeches
CanWest News Service
Published: Tuesday, April 25, 2006Most Canadians are accepting of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s religious sign-off—“God bless Canada”—at the end of speeches, a new poll has found. According to an Ipsos Reid survey conducted for CanWest News Service/Global National, 65% of Canadians indicated it was an acceptable term and that he should keep using it. One in four felt mixing the mini-prayer with political speeches was the wrong way to go. Ipsos president Darrell Bricker says the results show controversy over the term has been “a bit of a tempest in a teapot.” It has become a source of controversy since Mr. Harper was elected Prime Minister in January. The term has drawn comparisons between Mr. Harper and U.S. President George W. Bush, who regularly ends speaking engagements with “God Bless America.”
? National Post 2006
Actually, anti-Americanism and anti-Christianism aside, I think the term has also drawn comparisons to, um, what’s it called again? Oh yeah our national anthem, which sings out:
God keep our land glorious and free!
And that Canadian Constitution thingy, which starts out:
Whereas Canada is founded upon the principles
that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law…
But sure, I suppose George Bush, and every single president from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton to Ronald Reagan, also said that and continue to say that at the end of every speech, because they believe in God too. And damn, That ain’t liberal! That anti-American and anti-Christian effort can be hard for the liberal media! Politics is hard!
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