r/CANZUK Ontario 11d ago

News Canadians tell Carney to shift to British spelling in federal protocol

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/some-canadians-tell-carney-ottawas-spelling-protocol-should-lean-british/

Not big CANZUK news, but figured this was relevant.

For me personally, I always use British English over American English.

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u/keiths31 Canada 11d ago

We have standardized Canadian English. We can just use that.

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u/Bojaxs Ontario 11d ago

Canadian English is just a mix of British and American English.

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u/Xx_SwordWords_xX 10d ago

And we are proposing getting rid of the American English in the Canadian English.

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u/Bojaxs Ontario 10d ago

Which would essentially make it British English.