Canada ping please.
As a Canadian, I just wish our flag wasn’t so ugly and boring.
But I suppose it fits, seeing as, to many folks around the world, Canada is barely even thought-of, other than as the punchline to lame jokes. X.x
Wrong. The proclamation was made by Queen Elizabeth II of Canada.
It’s one of the few flags made post WW2 that doesn’t look like it was a complete afterthought or a variation of existing flags.
Simple, easily recognized and reproducible.
My gawd, there’s something else I am older than.
I’ve lived my life in two states - Washington and Alaska with lots of trips to and thru Canada, mostly B.C. and the Yukon. Great country, people, food and drink including my favorite O’Keefe’s Extra Old Stout. A couple bottles of that and you can speak Canadian fairly well.
I prefer the old flag of Canada; my grandfather fought under that flag at Vimy Ridge where the sacred blood of Canada created Canada a nation there.
Nothing of equal gravitas was ever accomplished under that new red and white rag.
I love the old red ensign. I hoist it up our flagpole every July 1st and leave it there for the whole month. My neighbours love it. (They're mostly crusty senior Canadian citizens, too.) As for the "Maple Leaf Forever", when I was a young lad I attended Alexander Muir public school (Toronto) for a few of my early education years. Mr. Muir wrote the song, and we all learned it. I heard that later, when Trudeau was elected, the name of the school was changed to Gladstone Avenue school (it's location). I guess Pierre didn't like the second line of the song.
The Canadian flag was adopted by way of trickery and one of the flag committee members admitted that it was rigged.