[SAMWolf]

You're welcome, Argh. I'll never unnderstand why the Canadians went to that flag that looks like a nose bleed.

[Argh]

I remember a few of the arguments from 1964. They wanted to represent Canada with a maple leaf on white to be the land, and blue borders to represent the oceans. They didn't think a green maple leaf looked good (it didn't), so they went with a fall coloured red one. Then some clever puppy noticed the blue borders, representing the oceans, would disappear against the sky, and the flag would look like the Rising Sun!! I'm glad we avoided that one!

The old flag was hard for kids to draw, but was lovely. Me being an old stick-in-the-mud conservative about some things may contribute to this opinion. The whole flag debate was, as so much that's gone on up here, a waste of time and money.

P.S., and to you too, Miss Cote: I just remembered the apparently true story that when it looked like we were going for red leaf, blue borders, some Japanese company jumped the gun and made a whole bunch of red leaf blue bordered plastic flags, etc. When the decision came for red and red, either the company or the Japanese government approached several African nations emerging at the time to accept the red/ blue as their new flag so the Japanese wouldn't be out of pocket!! All the emerging African nations refused, showing sense for the last times in some of their existences.

[Black Powder]

I'll never unnderstand why the Canadians went to that flag that looks like a nose bleed.

Because they're not British and don't want a union jack in their flag. I have no idea what prompted you to insult it, but to most Canadians, the red ensign is a symbol of British colonialism and they are glad it's gone.