Mr Harper's own attempt to lighten the greyness of parliamentary life was a proposal to rewrite the national anthem, “O Canada”, replacing a male-chauvinist phrase, “thy sons command”, with a gender-neutral but somewhat archaic previous wording, “dost in us command”. The idea was put to him by Senator Nancy Ruth, the Conservatives' only openly gay parliamentarian. Alas, an immediate and overwhelmingly negative reaction forced the prime minister to backtrack just 48 hours later.

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