View attachment 85223 View attachment 85224
Can't be ours if no one had a say? Even the Maple Leaf went through various committees, this was put together overnight without a thought in its design. Suggest to keep the union jack if you want, but it needs a update, and the public should have a say.
The Ontario Flag was adopted after being passed by the Provincial Legislature = democratic mandate given. Now, which provincial flags didn’t??
The Union Jack represents the union of Ireland (now Northern Ireland), Scotland and England. Nothing represents Canada...or Wales, but that for a different discussion.
The Union jack is an official flag of Canada –Royal Union Flag (for full title). Canada’s unique and distinct identity is perfectly encapsulated in our National Flag. Our provincial flag can be put into the pot that is the melange of Canadian identity: from many comes one.
The whole point isn't to wipe the Union Jack from the history books, it will always be part of our history, good and bad, but we have to stop living in the past and start making our own history.
Interesting quote from the internet:
George Orwell wrote in 1984, "He who controls the present controls the past. He who controls the past controls the future." A nation's collective memory is the unseen seven-eighths of the iceberg. When you sever that, what's left just bobs around on the surface, unmoored in every sense. Orwell understood that an assault on history is an assault on memory, and thus a totalitarian act. M.Steyn
Personally, I think our provincial flag looks nice, little red, white and blue cross’y thing in the corner and all. When I see it I think Ontario.
Sorry, I can’t see colonial yoke, foreign oppressor or anything like that. If you don’t like it…guess that’s just one of those things in life. But like I said earlier, it makes us no less Canadian.
But create our own history? That has too much of an ominous ‘Pol Pot Year Zero’ tone too it. "Welcome to the People’s Republic of Ontario, we
are making our own history from now on..."
We are one of the world’s oldest settled, constitutional democracies and changing flags due to whatever is the current fashion does strike me as a bit…third world’ish, IMO.
We are Canadian not British, and we don't hanker after the British empire or a restoration of Imperial France, but we do have a lot of foreign national symbols and traditions that make up our diverse culture.
Anyhow, never mind the Ontario flag, what about the name of
that province???