Buckdog

Harper with a majority and elected senate would change the flag I really do not think he can stand the flag, which is the red and white, like the Liberal colours ,but those are are also Canada's Colours from long before this beautiful flag.
I can just imagine what the Tories would do, if Ontario changed its flag and replaced the Ensign in the corner. I wish they would change it, and put a bigger trillium.

The Conservatives wanted the British jack in the background like Australia to connect us to our roots. It's a very typical conservative principle of prescription.

Leftdog, John Diefenbaker was a proud Canadian.
He was a man of a Generation that saluted the Union Jack. Thats what he felt was Canadian.

I don't agree with his point of veiw but you have a respect the man for trying to keep his flag alive.

``So to each of you I say I believe in Canada - a Canada undivided. A Canadian I was born, a Canadian I will die.''

John G. Diefenbaker

I remember how the new flag resembled the Supertest credit card.

I also remember how it took Centennial Year to make us realise how great we are as a nation.

Then, the new flag took on a new meaning to most of us. Finally, it was a point of pride for us.

I still miss the Red Ensign, though.

One of the reasons I heard about the Flag Fiasco the Conservatives did not want Canada to be marked by a Liberal Red. It was an agenda of the Liberal party to do this they claimed. Some days I think they're crazy.

Dief and the Conservatives were WRONG in 1964 and they did their typical boorish behaviour (much like what Baird and Kenney do now in the House).

But would a Conservative EVER admit that they were wrong about the Maple Leaf?

The Maple Leaf is now the most loved Canadian symbols ... the Conservatives were wrong! (but they have not enough class to ever admit it! - all they have is nastiness and vile, viscious hatred for anything that does not fit into their ideology).

We flew both the Union Jack. British Flag, and the Red Ensign, a British Navy Flag.... the one the Legion wanted to keep

I love the Maple Leaf flag, and there is still a very dear place in my heart for the Red Ensign. I love this country from sea to sea to sea, Leftdog, and feel at home wherever I am in Canada! We have a good thing going in Canada, and we should continue it!

I suppose it is just coincidence the Flag is the same colours as the Liberal Party's? Give me a break, that thing should be hauled down down and shit on by little green Leprechauns.
The Red Ensign with a few touches would be a much more appropriate Flag for this country than the present Liberal Flag.

haven't they thrown you out of Hamilton yet??????

It's interesting that both Australia and NZ didn't feel the urge to change their flags, and the subject meets with much boredom from what I can see.

Perhaps Canada felt overshadowed more than the antipodeans? Certainly the men and women who fought against the change deserve better than the derision they are meted out: they were merely people of their time, and to mock them when they lost the argument (based on their deeply held genuine convictions) shows a lack of good humour and grace.

To destroy what was a part of your *heritage* was a sad thing. A people without a history the ties that bind, if you will - are a mere collection of atomized individuals afloat on a sea of ignorance. And that's just how the ruling Elites like it - atomized, lost and ignorant.