Pubdate: Fri, 07 Jul 2006
Source: Independent & Free Press, The (CN ON)
Copyright: 2006 Metroland Printing, Publishing and Distributing
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'NATIONAL FLAG' UPSETS PATRIOTIC CANADIAN

Dear editor,

There are several folk around town selling flags this week. Most of 
them are soccer team flags for supporting your favourites in the 
World Cup. This is fine and a source of national pride for the 
countries involved in the World Cup.

However, one of these flags on display, very prominently at Alcott 
and Guelph Sts., was a red and white flag similar to our country's 
flag approximately 3ft. by 4ft.

The major difference in this flag was that the red maple leaf had 
been replaced by a marijuana leaf also in red.

That someone could come along and desecrate our county's flag and 
openly and brazenly display it on a major intersection in town defies belief.

I personally was incensed by this display but when I approached the 
vendor he told me his boss had ordered him to display it and he had no choice.

It was my impression that to alter any national flag in any way was 
illegal. If that is not so, then this display, to say the least, was 
a direct insult to Canadians and in extremely poor taste.

A proud Canadian

John Tatham,

Georgetown
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