Canada Ping!
IIRC the issue of the new flag arose after the radical Quebecois Liberation terrs were bombing mail boxes and such while the divisive bi-lingual laws were being put into effect. The fore runner of our current multi-culti situation.
The suggestion that the new flag be nine beavers pissing on a frog was a strong contender.
As a school kid, we all submitted designs hoping that ours would be selected…. Mine wasn’t all that far off the final design. Mine had blue borders on both sides to stand for ‘from sea to sea’ (this being before the more popular way of designating that Canada runs from sea to sea to sea). Even then I didn’t like the fact that the Liberals used this as an opportunity to insert nothing but their party colours into our national flag. In the end, it was grudgingly accepted even by those who loved the Red Ensign…..but on a similar topic, July 1st for me, will never be anything other than Dominion Day. Psalm 72:8 He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.
Canada has a great flag!
Canada Ping!
I remember the Flag Debate all too well.
“Canada has no national flag!” - the Red Ensign was a battle flag - we needed no other, imho.
The Liberal Party had its way, however, and we caught up with the Americans in the flag-waving department. This is appalling from a traditional Canadian perspective.
RIP.
I’ve always thought it to be a very stylish, beautiful flag.
RIP.
At Queenston Heights and Lundy’s Lane
Our brave fathers side by side
For freedom’s right and loved ones dear
Firmly stood and nobly died. And those dear rights which they maintained
We swear to yield them never.
Our watchword evermore shall be
The Maple Leaf forever.
“Just ask the countless Americans who supposedly sew them onto their knapsacks before their treks through Europe, hoping for warmer welcomes.”
Actually, in truth, it should read: “Just ask the countless American LIBERALS who sew them onto their knapsacks before their treks through Europe, hoping they will be seen by the world as non-threatening wimps.”
I’m OK with the flag. It’s been the only national flag I’ve known my whole life, and I’m pushing 50 (was born in the Centennial year, actually). And it’s recognizable and not easily confused with other flags, unlike all those European tri-color flags that I can never keep track of (red-white-blue? Blue-white-red?) It’s probably good that they didn’t put in elements that directly referred to our two main founding cultures (British and French) or other specifics, because I’m sure the multi-culti types would be all up in arms that their contribution to Canada’s culture weren’t included in the flag.
Give me the flag that our men died under during WWII, the red ensign. I think the Pearson liberal flag is a rag.