The House of Representatives of Canada voted to alter the English version of the national anthem and make it gender neutral, The Telegraph reported.

According to the lawmakers, the words “True patriot love in all thy sons command” will be replaced with “... in all of us command”.

The initiative to change the anthem belongs to the member of the ruling Liberal Party Mauril Belanger, who is suffering from a side amyotrophic sclerosis and may not live  till that day when the new version of the national anthem will be finalized. The new words must be approved by the Senate.

The anthem of Canada is called “O Canada” and officially became the national anthem on July1, 1980. The country has English and French versions, and one is not a translation of the second.