MARK STEYN: Is that really what Canadian citizenship is?

The National Post (Canada) ^ | March 7, 2003 | Mark Steyn

[MadIvan]

Not bad from Steyn.

Regards, Ivan

The flag of Canada...before the trouble started.

[MadIvan]

Bump!

[JohnHuang2]

Thanks for the ping, amigo

[JohnHuang2]

Mark Steyn MEGA PING!!

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks Ivan.

Looks like Mark is right on top of the left wing maggots in charge of the NY Slimes.

He just went up another notch with me!

[Damocles]

"A week in which The New York Times is spiking its own columnists is probably not a good time to try and reassure somebody else's."

The editor replied: "Ouch."

Ouch indeed. Steyn rules.

[xp38]

Gotta love Steyn. Neatly eviscerates Kingwell.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[dennisw]

Mark manages to make Canada sound interesting. Many laughs!!

[JohnHuang2]

Welcome :^)

[xp38]

Cote...I could be wrong but that flag in your post looks an awful lot like the current and still in use provincial flag of Ontario and not the old national red ensign of Canada.

[MEG33]

Mark Steyn is the reason I read the National Post. The article he is "fisking" was juvenile. I am growing weary of the moral superiority stance by the Canadian Socialist Government.

[Hawkeye's Girl]

Coke and hookers may work at the National Post, but it'll take more than that to get me back in the Times.

Mwahahahahahahaha!

[goldstategop]

The Red Ensign was Canada's flag before 1965. A version of it is still the flag of Ontario Province. Symbolically it represented Canada's link to the Mother Country and to the British Empire. What is Canada now? Not even Canadians are sure who exactly they are today.

[MadIvan]

It should be pointed out that the Maple Leaf Flag is forever associated with the Liberal Party; while looking for the Red Ensign, I found this interesting story:

Rediscovery of the 1965 original flag

Reported on the national TV news (15 February 2000) was the "discovery" of the first Canadian maple leaf flag. The flag was first flown on 15 February, 1965, but no-one seemed to know what happened to the actual flag that was raised on that day. It turns out that the the then-prime minister, Lester B. Pearson, took the flag and put it up in the Liberal Party caucas board room, where it has been ever since. A newspaper reporter started digging, and found it. The modern Liberals (again the governing party) claim that they knew that was the original flag all along, and have now donated it to a heritage museum. Of course the opposition parties all cried foul, claiming the Liberals had deliberately hidden it.
Rob Raeside, 16 February 2000

Regards, Ivan

[BartMan1]

pingsteyn

[Andyman]

awful lot like the current and still in use provincial flag of Ontario and not the old national red ensign of Canada.

Talk to the people in the west and they will tell you there is not much of a difference.

[Mr. Lucky]

This is all your fault anyway, you know.

Had you properly subjugated the Francophones after the battle on the Plain of Abraham, none of this would be a problem.

[MadIvan]

Had you properly subjugated the Francophones after the battle on the Plain of Abraham, none of this would be a problem.

What can I say, we can sometimes be a little too gracious in victory. ;)

Regards, Ivan