The Trudeau Liberals have quietly decided to change our national anthem.

They don’t want to debate the issue, they don’t care what Canadians think about the matter, they just want to rewrite our Canadian heritage to suit today’s politically correct environment.

The Trudeau government will change the English lyrics of O Canada from “in all thy sons command,” to the clumsy and awkward sounding “in all of us command.”

This revision to our 102-year-old anthem will supposedly make it “gender neutral.” But when asked, Canadians overwhelmingly oppose the changes.

A 2012 survey found that 78% of Canadians believed our national anthem, as it is currently written, is a great source of national pride. A 2013 survey found that only one in four Canadians support making changes.

Forget public opinion. With a majority in the House of Commons, and committees stacked with Liberal MPs, the Trudeau government has decided it will simply ram through the change without consulting Canadians.

But if we start tinkering with our anthem now, what else will politicians decide has fallen out of fashion? Will we remove references to God, as Switzerland recently did?

Perhaps it will become unfashionable to ask citizens to “stand on guard” or to say “our home and native land,” as Toronto City Council once declared.

There is no stopping where this politically correct obsession will take us.

While stable Western democracies such as Australia, the US and Great Britain have avoided making surgical changes to their national anthems, Canada will join the ranks of Russia, Iraq and Germany as countries who tinker with national symbols and change their anthem to fit the impulses of the ruling elite.

As Conservative MP Peter Van Loan rightly noted, “Canadians are being shut out. Their national anthem is being changed. They have been singing it for decades, it belongs to them. We are telling Canadians, ‘guess what, you don’t have a say in your national anthem.'”

In a fast-tracked hearing, the government’s Heritage Committee met on Thursday and heard testimony from only one expert, historian Dr. Chris Champion.

Champion, who edits the Dorchester Review journal, strongly advised against changing the lyrics of the anthem. He discussed the long tradition in the English language of using the term “sons” to describe all people.

When properly understood, in the context it was written, our anthem is gender-neutral already. For 102 years, O Canada has united Canadians and is loved by those who sing it.

From a Remembrance Day ceremony honouring the brave men and women who fought and died for Canada, to the Canadian women’s hockey team belting the lyrics after winning the Gold medal on home ice at the Vancouver Olympics, O Canada has helped define our country and brought us all together.

Canadian women have sung it with pride, never feeling excluded, despite the Trudeau Liberal’s latest feminist edict.

All Canadians have grown up singing our great national anthem. To suggest now, in 2016, that for the past 102 years our anthem has actually excluded women is a misrepresentation of our language, our heritage and our national symbols.

It's an insult to women. We don’t need a bunch of self-righteous politicians in Ottawa to make women feel included. Women are already included.

And if politicians in Ottawa don’t feel comfortable with O Canada, they don’t have to sing it.

But they shouldn't change the national anthem all Canadians have loved for generations. It belongs to us, not condescending and ahistorical politicians.