Goatse should have been your flag, tools

Say what you want about "design by committee", but what we got was far better than anything these "creative solo" efforts attempted.

Happy Birthday to our flag. Happy 50th Birthday. Today is date to rejoice.

The Pearson flag was the right choice, taking out the blue was rejecting the French fact in Canada. That was the start of Independance for Québec.

What are you talking about?

History my friend, what really happened. Diefenbaker had fits in the House of Commons up and until the took the blue out of all the flags proposals. Very strong symbol of racism and colonialism. Pure Canadian history.

I like our flag. Good work whoever designed it!

The bacon wrapper was the winner.!!! three cheers for the bacon wrapper.!!!

I like to thinks so, but there are few voices left who are with us.

And that's a good thing. On our way to a more democratic society, no longer shackle by an archaic monarchy.

That was interesting, thankyou for posting this article.

It's a good thing we don't have to come up with a new flag these days - it would take 50 years to get something that every special interest group would approve, before we could run the ugly quilt up the flagpole.

Stanley did well to go with simplicity and let future generations enjoy a flag without baggage attached.

Didn't like it when it first came out but it has grown on me. I do think it should have been a leaf from a tree found across Canada. The red maple only exists east of Manitoba.

Our flag is one of the three most recognized flags in all the world and we are rightly proud to display it. Yet not a word from our current government about its 50th birthday. I wonder why.

Don't worry... given the level of immigration in this country, we'll be flying the ISIS flag soon enough.

The right wing English didn't want Canada to be a country; they didn't want Canada to have a flag; they didn't want Canada to have a national anthem. We are still stuck with a European monarchy cause they need it to show that they are not Americans. Despite them, Vive le Canada.

New Zealand's not far off running a referendum on choosing a new national flag. Currently NZ has a defaced Ensign (blue rather than red in Canada's case) - and too much like Australia's flag for most people to describe the difference without looking them up.
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It looks like blue bars representing the two oceans and a red maple leaf (not the 3 leaves) would have been a pretty good choice.

I was in the navy and was a little disheartened to see the white ensign go. All in all though, they got it right with the selection they made. Easily recognizable the world over.

The flag is bland and represents a cowardly urge to please everyone. In that I guess it fits just right with modern Canada.

Bland? I don't think it's bland at all. Bright red and white with a picture of a maple leaf, when most flags are just a band of three colours or something equally dull.

It has ALWAYS been known, Pearson and its designer, chose the colours of the Liberal party for our flag. Disgusting. The criminal mafia party has its colours forever more, flown all over this country. I always agreed with my dad, support our old flag, and NEVER give respect to this disgraceful one.

That's a bit of harsh prose on Valentine's Day morning.

Perhaps the Liberal-Conservative, Unionist Party, National Liberal and Conservative Party, Liberal Conservative Party, National Conservative Party, National Government, Progressive Conservative Party, Reform/Alliance/Conservative Party and currently the Conservative Party could simply change is colour to red and the problem would be solved. They could still wear blue suits and hold their breath for inordinate lengths of time to demonstrate they are still true-blue Tories.

What a sad little man you are.

The maple leaf forever.

In days of Yore from Britain's shore.

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The Pearson flag is pretty good, but the thin stripes kinda make it look a military decoration.

And I think 1 leaf would have been better than 3.

Aussies see their flag as being fundamentally Australian so why could we have not seen the red ensign as being fundamentally Canadian? If ethnics in Toronto/Hongcouver, etc get to flaunt their heritage all willy nilly than so will I.

The red ensign is fundamentally Canadian, but the current flag is better for getting rid of the colonial element. We're not a colony after all.

I am 32 and I proudly fly the Red Ensign and have for years. Whenever I see the Ontario and Canadian flags flying side by side my eyes automatically go to the Ontario flag - the red ensign is much better flag. Australia and New Zealand got to keep their ensigns (at least for now) and we had to give ours up. The reason... Quebec Quebec Quebec..

English paranoia if you ask me. In the end, regardless of the fears in the rest of Canada, Quebecers did not care which flag was chosen. Yet your misinformed, misguided opinions endure and you relish in feeding hatred.

Another history failure. Read up on the Canadian flag, your reason is complete hogwash.

It really has nothing to do with the west either.

Our class had a tour of the Parliament Buildings when it was thought Pearson's Pennant was a shoo-in. There were desktop flags of that description in just about every office on The Hill. It would be interesting to find out just where they all went, they'd be real collectors items.

The Weekend Magazine, a publication that came with the Saturday newspapers back then carried a spread similar to the one above. There were some very good submissions and some real dogs.

I think the light blue one with the red maple leaf inside was a pretty good one. Worst one was the 'all-seeing-eye'.

The first time the Maple Leaf flag (proposed by George Stanley) would be flown was Feb. 15 1965.
Speaking of 'Stanley's', two years later the Toronto 'Maple Leafs' would win the Stanley Cup.
Speaking of 'Stanley cups the Maple Leafs have won', this would also be the last one while this flag has flown.

They still fly the maple leaf in Montreal, Edmonton, and Calgary.

Yeah, they do..........................................but it really hasn't been anywhere close to 50 years for them has it? And with the exception of Calgary, they've done it more than once. :) Just saying....

Apropos of nothing other than symbolism:

I was behind a car today with the following bumper sticker:

Beer is cheaper than gas.
DRINK - DON'T DRIVE !

Well, when Emmett "Doc" Brown returned to tell Marty McFly he had to venture into the future, he refueled his modified Bricklin with, among other things, several ounces of beer...Miller I believe. Perhaps you saw a prototype of that very same vehicle?

There are two sources of power in the the DeLorean (Norther Ireland), not Bricklin (Canada/New Brunswick); although these two gull-wing are are often confused. There is a standard internal combustion engine that runs on regular gasoline, and yes at one time alcohol was used as a substitute although I didn't think it was beer. Time travel however requires much more energy, which is stored in the flux capacitor (charged from various sources in the different movies). You first however need to accelerate the car to 88 MPH which is why the standard engine is required.

I am familiar with the Bricklin (I could never understand the attraction for gull-wing doors - Mercedes has at least one also), but, I am not familiar with Brown - McFly episode.

On the occasion of the raising of the flag the first time, local commanding officer make the observations that it looked nice for valentines day, never mentioned again.

So we went with vegetation. Why not a salt shakers or perhaps a distributor cap?

Give it time and there'll be a crescent and some black arabic on it.

Distributor cap? What is that, something to do with VHS?

We should put that costume worn recently by Canada's Miss Universe contestant on the flag.

So when the symbolism of the federal flag took the england, scotland and irish parliamentary oversight of their governance's symbols away from their crown and under our crown, why di they not do the same with the provinces and the protection of colours? I would suggest that just because sec. 92 A is written as it is to stop first nations from gaining what the CRO'wN must do, does not mean that with those powers, the province can carry the Union Jack countries letter patents under provincial law, as international trade is federal and the provinces cannot run the corporations with other colours through our provinces as though our provinces to are not held by the same restrictions regarding the federal government when entering into the federal matter of divisions of powers and protecting our person, property and voting rights and not the international favourtism which we see under the provincial government who while operating what are entirely private provincial corporations are letting them collect under our ITA as though they are federal corporation that are public just because they have international trading interests, when they are not federal at all, and within the province are serving what are private provincial interests, not public ones at all. Flags are symbols but what goes on under provincial corporations and our ITA as though the private is federally public too without regard to the rights of the provincial taxpayers and regulatory controls that are accountable to those taxpayers instead of operating as though federal is a serious over sight missing in the symbol colours that are protected but not for the treatment of some as second class citizens to other who prefer the foreign flag and crown to their own citizens rights to have their interests protected under their flag and their own citizens fellow citizens collective before the rights of those citizens who have a stronger alliance to their foreign country's citizens that they have to the citizens of Canada who have no other foreign citizenship to align to under our ITA public purposes which is only for those who are to be treated equally and not according to any foreign land allegiance taking a priority over the public of canada as a private interests collector registered as a private provincial corporation under our ItA.