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It appears, nowdays, people pursue causes, real or conjectured, to fulfill their quest for 15 minutes of fame. We have more pressing issues than altering provincial flags. By the way, Canada is not a colony.
R.C. Lowe, Shedden
Why stop at flag?
Mano Majumdar, from Western University, wants to replace the Ontario flag with a new flag that doesn’t reflect colonization.
Graham Broad, also from Western, dismissed any suggestion a flag change would be seen as “cancelling history.” I disagree.
Majumdar sees the flag as a symbol of Ontario and Canada as a colony and it’s time for a change. Perhaps we should cancel, er, I mean modernize, the city named London as well as the Thames River. After all they are named after the centre of colonization, London, England. And then of course, we have Talbot Street, Talbotville, Colonel Talbot Road, and the Talbot Trail, all named after the chief colonizer, Col. Thomas Talbot. We’ve got quite a lot of work ahead of us.