Jully Black’s national anthem is making headlines. What would it take to make the change official? Instead of singing, “our home and native land,” the R&B artist sang, “our home on native land.”
When Canadian singer-songwriter Jully Black performed the national anthem at the NBA’s All-Star Game on Sunday,In anBlack said she had reached out to Indigenous friends for feedback, and landed on this version of the song.
Eva Jewell, the research director at Indigenous-led research centre Yellowhead Institute, said she was “heartened” to see her rendition. “Indigenous Peoples have been saying that line for decades actually — this is something that is known within our communities,” Jewell said. “So, to see Jully uplift that into the national anthem … it showed me that she has seen us, she understands us; she gets it.”
What would it take for this version to become official? Here’s what we know about the process — and what the revision could mean for the Canadian public.The lyrics to “O Canada” have been changed many times since the song was first written in French in 1880, but it has only been changed once since the song became the national anthem in 1980.— through the change of just two words — was signed into law.
Bélanger, who had advocated for the change for years, introduced the successful bill after being diagnosed with ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease. Because his condition was worsening quickly,As with all legislation, the bill had to be approved by the House of Commons and the Senate, and required royal assent.
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