Actually I heard this on another radio station yesterday (102.1), and on my morning radio today on yet another channel, so I think the issue is getting more attention than you think.
With all due respect to your position and opinion on the matter, I think it is a very big deal. At what point do we say anything has credibility and is not 'up for revision'? Surely the Pyriamids are too old, perhaps we should apply a new 'coat of paint', or some landscaping to make them more attractive. I think it's ideas like this that wipe out cultures, because they no longer have a history or heritage to cling on to, everything is brought 'into the times'. Not everything should be brought up to date, that is the point. Canada has enough struggle with cultural heritage, which if anything is Native Indian, which we taught in schools for decades was 'wrong'. Harper last year made a public apology for decades of mistreatment of young Native Canadians, realizing that their culture is in fact sacred to their people, and doesn't need to be consumed by the greater metropolitan culture of Canadians as a whole.
This line is not sexist, and surely we have raised a generation that has enough wit, intelligence and gender appreciation that we don't need to personally evaluate every level of our national anthem and how it refers to us. Are we now going to say 'it says native land - I'm not native, take it out!'. Or how about 'God keep our land', I don't believe in God, take it out! Or 'glorious and free', I vote communist, take it out! At what point do we give a little bit of credibility to a visionary man that wrote this, and realize that he had nothing but the best (and chances are non-sexist) intentions for this anthem to represent all Canadians? It was voted on - several times - and has not changed since its official inception on July 1st, 1980. The lyrics have not bee changed or revised since that official day.
Perhaps if there is enough support for a vote then it is up to the people to decide. But at that point I would again ask, why? Instead we should be educating people of what it means instead of changing it for every complaint the government receives. People complain that Canada just bends over for every pushy request and this is one of those cases when they can simply say don't like it? Don't sing it. Or move. 29.999 million other Canadians will proudly sing it, because they know their grandfathers died to this anthem and it means more than a sexist interpretation.
Hey anybody from the United States of America out there, what would happen if someone campaigned to change the Star Spangled Banner? How do you think that would turn out?
Imagine if we still sang the original O Canada:
"O Canada! Our home and native land!
True patriot love thou dost in us command.
We see thee rising fair, dear land,
The True North, strong and free;
And stand on guard, O Canada,
We stand on guard for thee.
Refrain
O Canada! O Canada!
O Canada! We stand on guard for thee.
O Canada! We stand on guard for thee.
O Canada! Where pines and maples grow.
Great prairies spread and lordly rivers flow.
How dear to us thy broad domain,
From East to Western Sea,
Thou land of hope for all who toil!
Thou True North, strong and free!
Refrain
O Canada! O Canada! etc.
O Canada! Beneath thy shining skies
May stalwart sons and gentle maidens rise,
To keep thee steadfast through the years
From East to Western Sea,
Our own beloved native land!
Our True North, strong and free!
Refrain
O Canada! O Canada! etc.
Ruler supreme, who hearest humble prayer,
Hold our dominion within thy loving care;
Help us to find, O God, in thee
A lasting, rich reward,
As waiting for the Better Day,
We ever stand on guard.
Refrain
O Canada! O Canada! etc."