Earlier this week a Conservative member of the Canadian Senate tried to stop a controversial bill from passing.

Bill C-210, which would change the lyrics of O Canada to make them gender neutral, was struck down yet again with a new amendment.

Senator Don Plett moved the amendment and even created a compromise that could revert the anthem to it's original wording "thou dost in us command".

Here in Airdrie, MP Blake Richards says he's heard this issue debated twice already since taking office, and according to his riding, it shouldn't be an issue.

"When this Bill came to the House of Commons...I had letters and I informally surveyed constituents and it was pretty overwhelming that people didn't want to see these lyrics changed."

Richards applauds the move by the Conservative Senator and hopes that the issue of changing the National Anthem doesn't come up again, but admits that it could.

"One would hope that...It'd be twice now that the expression would have been that this is not something that people would want to see, that someone wouldn't try to continue to bring it over a third time."

Richards says that a new bill on the issue can't be delivered until a new Parliament is elected.

Bill C-210, which was a private members bill from late Liberal MP Mauril Belanger, which was passed last year, but never made into law.

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