(CTV) A principal at a Toronto high school has apologized after an Arabic version of “O Canada” was played during morning announcements on the Oct. 7 anniversary of the deadly Hamas attacks on Israeli civilians.
The apology from the principal of Earl Haig Secondary School, shared in a letter obtained by CTV News Toronto, notes that the decision to play the Arabic version of the anthem “was not done with any ill intent.”
The apology comes three days after Ontario Education Minister Paul Calandra publicly condemned the incident on social media and said that it was “hard to believe that no one recognized the significance of this day.”
Calandra warned he would “take action” if schools failed to respect the official versions of Canada’s national anthem, which are recognized only in English or French under federal law.
