Use O Canada as Quebec national anthem: PQ delegate

Actualité québécoise 2011


QUEBEC — A Parti Quebecois delegate, who doesn’t want his name published because he is a civil servant, told a weekend PQ meeting that an independent Quebec, rather than commissioning a new national anthem, could adapt the one Quebecers are used to: O Canada.
He would simply replace the word “Canada” with “Quebec.”
It doesn’t scan though. Canada is a three syllable word, and Quebec has two syllables.
No problem, he says. Make it: “O beau Quebec.”
While it has become the rallying anthem for Canadian federalists, from coast to coast to coast, O Canada has Quebec roots.
O Canada was composed in Quebec City and first performed at the 1880 St. Jean Baptiste Day celebrations.
At that time Quebecers called themselves “Canadiens.”
“Gilles”, civil servant, said for most Quebec francophones O Canada is their “affectionate national anthem.”

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