Tune: You are my Sunshine
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW9g8jI2XuM
We love democracy, we need democracy
We will dissent when our morals say
We have our voices and we will use them
Please don’t take democracy away
And we object to your squelching protest
We love discussion, we love debate
And we will value different opinions
We abhor a heavy-handed state
In our democracy, it’s OUR democracy
There is no room for Bill One’s flaws
We love our Charter… and Bill One scares us
We abhor this heavy handed law
So in Alberta, we have to fight for
The right to gather and disagree
When those elected… will not protect it…
We will fight for our democracy.
Written by the Calgary Raging Grannies, revised in July 2020 in response to the UCP passing a vaguely worded bill banning protest in public and private spaces. It was first written in April 1999 in response to government pronouncements that the Opposition serves no purpose, and teachers may lose their right to strike. It was first revised in March 2015 for a rally against Bill C-51, Harper’s secret police bill.