The time has come for all good persons, not mothers, fathers, sons and daughters, to rise up against intellectual contradiction-ism.
Yes, folks, if we were to truly be allegiant to Justin Trudeaus Liberal dictates, classic books like Hop on Pop would no longer rhyme. Green Eggs and Ham might be a mess of modern poetry as the name Sam may offend some. My, if I were named Sam, the good Dr. Seuss just might find himself smack against a Canadian Supreme court judge. Let us consider poor Dick and Jane … Person 1 and Person 2 sounds more politically correct, does it not?
In fact, we could probably extend the metaphor to Shakespeare, and quote thusly: Alas poor person 1, I knew him well…but not his name.
The drama teacher in Mr. Trudeau would cringe, but the politician would dance with glee, and quite possibly exclaim …’Zounds, I have Trumped the author formally known as William Shakespeare.
What then about the instruction of any other language that assigns gender to nouns? What possibly gives an elected politician the audacity to assume he and his party has the historical right to change thousands of years of intellectualism?
All humour aside, while changing mankind to personkind may be a politically correct, it by nature cries foul in the governments intentions to define laws and their intentions for genders and religions of all sorts, which by legal requirement must be precise. If a politically correct ruling were to extend to the supreme court, or senate for clarification, it would be shoved right back to the source, as well it should.
Before long, the beloved Dr. Seuss may be unrecognizable!
Tim Lasiuta, Red Deer