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Red Ensign Standard XV

Posted by Ray on 02/15/05 at 10:08 AM • Permalink


image The 15th Red Ensign Standard has been raised at Striving Against Opposition.

This edition is published on the 40th Anniversary of Canada's lowering of the Red Ensign and the raising of the Maple Leaf. I'll have more to say about this later today - don't worry: I'll not trash our current flag, as I happen to like it style-wise. But, there is something to be said about not throwing away everything pre-Maple Leaf, pretending that Canada really wasn't a country pre-Trudeaupia - There is something to be said for striving to improve, yet keeping the best of the past to build upon - and I think it is there that we have tossed the proverbial "baby" out with the bathwater.

Canada has gained in some areas; but we have lost much that we need not have turned our backs on - and hindsight can only tell us if it is too late to rectify that.
Raging Kraut

  1. Well said, Ray. I have a great deal of respect for history of the Red Ensign, but don't feel nostalgic for it in the way many do.

    Sadly, some people feel you have to crap on our flag in order to honour the Red Ensign. I am glad you are not among them.

    Posted by Timmy the G  on  02/17  at  02:50 PM



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