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Editor: RE:Ê 40th Anniversary of Maple Leaf Flag Ê As an Albertan, I would like to comment on why this flag is unrepresentative of western Canada.Ê From a democratic point of view, a flag is the single most important symbol of a nation that should be chosen through citizen selection. In 1965 there never was a national referendum on changing the flag from the Red Ensign (which my dad fought for) or a referendum held on selecting a new design from a group of artistic submissions by patriotic Canadians. Instead, we had a cabal of Liberal insiders and MPs from eastern Canada voting for it. Is it a mere coincidence that the two blocks of red are also the Liberal Party political colours? Furthermore, the maple is a deciduous tree which grows naturally no further west than central southern Ontario. This is a flag of eastern Canada only! It is a bland, boring flag with an equally boring national anthem reflecting a country that has been humbled economically, militarily, morally and democratically by a succession of Quebec based prime ministers and senior bureaucrats. My flag is the Stars and Stripes, a flag of courage, strength, honour and, yes, compassion Ñ the exact opposite of that mephitic Liberal flag. Ê - Kerry Nowosad
