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Hockey Isn’t as Important to Canadians as Their Bill of Rights

Hockey Isn’t as Important to Canadians as Their Bill of Rights by Greg Quinn Canadians like hockey. They love the constitutional bill of rights. The document, passed into law in 1982 as part of the country’s constitution, was chosen as the most important national symbol with 93 percent support in a survey on Canadian identity published Thursday by the national statistics agency. Hockey came last among five options, behind the national anthem ‘O Canada’ at 88 percent, the federal police force — the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, nicknamed the Mounties — at 87 percent and the country’s maple-leaf flag at… View Article