Dear editor,
Thank-you for the insert of the Canada Day flag in the recent Record.
Ever since I saw this version a few years ago, I immediately felt that it was tremendously appropriate. I felt it represented me as well as Indigenous citizens. Using the traditional Canadian maple leaf design and keeping the same red/white bar layout with the maple leaf in the middle, then overlaying Indigenous designs on the red seemed very inclusive.
I felt it represented the original inhabitants and traditional keepers of this land as well as everyone else who came after, including me, as settlers. I think it should become our national flag and I proudly hang my fabric version of this flag on Canada Day.
Christy Faraher-Amidon,
Comox
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