After ‘Freedom Convoy,’ Canadian flag has taken on new meaning for some this year
Puneet Luthra has always taken advantage of the Canadian flags his local MP’s office gives away so he can raise one at his Toronto home.But this year, he said, it feels different.
Ottawa is bracing for a new round of protests, with police saying this Canada Day will be “unprecedented and unique” with a never-before-seen security posture. But Megan Ball Rigden said it’s the country’s own complicated colonial history that has her hesitant to embrace the red and white.Ball Rigden said people in her mom’s generation chose the Canadian flag, and it’s close to their hearts for being representative of the “good things that we are.”
“The conservative reactionary forces were totally opposed to the Maple Leaf,” said Litt, adding they wanted to keep the Red Ensign as the nation’s flag for its symbolism of Canadian tradition and ties to Britain. It’s that reckoning with Canada’s past that led Chalk to buy a Canadian Indigenous flag last year, designed by Kwakwaka’wakw artist Curtis Wilson.“I felt strongly that I’d rather fly that. I’m still proud to be Canadian, but I think that we’ve kind of left Indigenous Peoples by the wayside for a long time.”The Maple Leaf’s current moment reflects a general problem with public discourse, Litt said, where there are “extremist” factions at both ends of the political spectrum.
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