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We should change Ontario's flag
- Thread starter Mr.Mike
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Time to rename to Canadian Columbia.
perfectchaos007
Member
It's time for Canada to distance themselves from the Queen imo. All the USA kept similar to the Brits after the American Revolution was the red white and blue color scheme of the flags.
How about Cascadia Columbia?
SMOK3Y
Generous Member
If i was Canadian I'd find that an insult
Don't do that. They'll just throw a Canadian Flag on top instead of the Union Jack.
perfectchaos007
Member
90% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the US Border. They definitely have a lot more culturally in common with Americans than Brits. Only thing they have in common with the Brits is the use of the metric system
Well, my mind is now shattered.
lastplayed
Member
That's what being Canadian is all about.
EDIT:
Yeah, I realized that a bit too late.
SMOK3Y
Generous Member
I was talking the more in common thing
Edit: For me when i think of canada i think of red maple leaf
I like it
Brutal.
Wrap it up or embrace it Ontario. Those are your choices now. They're both cool but you'll have to own it.
Soapbox Killer
Grand Nagus
Surprisingly spot on!
It's pretty nice, but we'd be riffing off the national flag. I like the one with the horizontal green and yellow stripes, which is what I was going for with my crayons.
titiklabingapat
Member
The Los Angeles flag has not just one, but two flags within its flag. Xzibit would be proud.
The colors also represent olive trees, oranges and vineyards so we gotta make sure we got an actual olive, orange and grapes inside the seal for good measure lest people forget!
I think the point is that a 5 year old can draw it and still be recognizable. Even if it's just a shitty drawing by a kid.
A child should at least be able to draw something recognizable as the flag. I could never draw the maple leaf, but you know what you're looking at when you see two vertical red stripes with a red thing in between.
The Red Ensign isn't really conducive to that.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
I like this first post
Yeah that's not bad. The first two designs in your OP are not bad either.
To be honest I couldn't even identify the other provinces' flags. Quebec's the only good looking and memorable and iconic one haha.
This would actually be a really great flag if they took out the seal and had the confidence to not label it. LA is a huge and influential city, people ought to know that it's the LA flag without a dumb label.
There is no older flag? I wasn't joking when I said the Ontario flag was introduced out of spite because the federal government got rid of the old Canadian red ensign flag.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Ontario
titiklabingapat
Member
Exactly my thought. I actually emailed Mayor Garcetti about it. He seems to be the kind of mayor that is receptive to this kind of thing. I also pointed put that great flags tend to be prominently used by locals, unlike the LA flag which is nowhere to be seen.
Im not Mexican but they have a sweet ass flag. Way better than the canadia one on the OP.
Phrozenflame500
Member
I agree. Any flag that has a tiny version of another flag in a corner should be retired IMO.
lastplayed
Member
I'm sure a 5 year old's drawing of Ontario's flag would be recognisable. Plenty of kids can do shitty drawings our flag without much difficulty, and I'd say they're comparable.
The only reason it bugs me was because we recently went through a convoluted flag referendum and the whole "a kid should be able to draw it" argument kept coming up time and again, and then they'd submit countless flags with the silver fern which is way more complex than anything currently on the flag.
Anyway, I think we really missed an opportunity.
Tarextherex
Banned
That's because we are a country
omg
Sakura
Member
Damn
BC rolls off the tongue way better and is so ingrained I don't see it ever changing.
What is the flag of Hawaii again?
And why should Canada distance itself from the Queen, when unlike the USA the head of state of Canada is the Queen?
No listen, here's the plan. We have a referendum, but we skip the question of whether we should have a new flag or not and just go straight to having a vote to pick a flag. In this referendum we also include a bunch of other red ensign flags, and this will dilute the vote for the original flag because nobody actually knows which one it is.
You joke, but i'd be fine with renaming B.C. and it's been suggested in the past...albeit, it's a suggestion to which most have answered with hostility.
I'm also in favor of ridding the Queen off our coins and bills; give one to Tecumseh, the other to Pierre Trudeau.
Well, leaving aside that the Queen has little power over Canada (and that we should continue to distance ourselves regardless of her influence or lack thereof), the crown is a symbol of imperialism and oppression to many minority groups in Canada who have been violated by our government who has been granted authority by the crown, most notably to indigenous individuals (60s Scoop, residential schools), Chinese immigrants and Japanese Canadians. Distancing ourselves from the crown may be a symbolic gesture that fails to respond to the issues that plague that portion of our country's civilians, but its symbolic importance is worth the effort.
gutter_trash
Banned
The Red Ensign is a relic of Birtish colonialism kept alive today due to the stubbornness of a Tory Conservative minded faction of the country who don't want to let go of royal symbols
Because the royal flag is truly obscene.
I'm partial to the idea of just changing the succession laws so that the Queen doesn't lose the throne when she dies.
Ether_Snake
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How about the British royals stop being "the head of state of Canada"?
gutter_trash
Banned
Technically it's four.
USA, California, Mexico and Spain (Castile+Leon)
Nunavut's is nice as well, but that's about it. Newfoundland should just get their old flag back, that ruled.
lastplayed
Member
What the Australian flag might look like without the ugly as fuck Union Jack
Looks like a kangaroo shitting stars.
Sakura
Member
I don't see what that has to do with my post.
The guy is comparing us to the USA saying they removed all references to the Queen (when they haven't really) from their shit, but why would we be removing references to the Queen when the Queen is still the head of state?
References to the head of state are hardly something strange. If you want to change to a republic or something then cool, but that is an entirely different discussion.
Dongs Macabre
aka Daedalos42
What the Australian flag might look like without the ugly as fuck Union Jack
Looks like a kangaroo shitting stars.
Looks like dandruff shampoo by that one shampoo brand with the kangaroo logo.
gutter_trash
Banned
Tories gonna Tory.
Hell, Harper took down a local artist's painting for a fucking portrait of the Queen.
Harper even renamed the armed force's name by adding the fucking word "Royal" before it.
Conservatives, Tories, Protestants still hold an irrational erection of maintaining the Monarchy.
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God Bless PM Lester Pearson for giving us our own flag
Hell, Harper took down a local artist's painting for a fucking portrait of the Queen.
Harper even renamed the armed force's name by adding the fucking word "Royal" before it.
Conservatives, Tories, Protestants still hold an irrational erection of maintaining the Monarchy.
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God Bless PM Lester Pearson for giving us our own flag
Because our real head of state for all practical purposes is the Governor General. And a lot of people, especially in French-speaking Canada, but also people like my friends Irish grandma who doesn't have citizenship because she refuses to swear an oath to the Queen, are super not about the British monarchy. And then in English speaking Canada a bunch of people don't even know we have a Queen.
Sakura
Member
No he didn't. The Canadian Armed Forces are still called that. Only the Navy and Air Force within the armed forces was reverted to the name that contained the Royal.
PumpkinSpice
Banned
This without the green bars on either side would be best.:
Already see this all over the place in Ottawa:
Already see this all over the place in Ottawa:
perfectchaos007
Member
Make Harper your head of state, and get off the Queens sagging teet. She doesn't do anything anyway
Sakura
Member
The thread is about provincial flags. Quebec doesn't like the monarchy. Everybody knows that. However, polling shows provinces like BC do not support abolishing the monarchy, so again why would we remove references to it from our flag?
I have never understood that argument. Many countries have heads of states that 'don't do anything', even amongst countries that are not monarchies.
I would hope that you don't have to be a Harper fan to know what our armed forces are called but alas...
gutter_trash
Banned
You should know, you're his biggest fan
