The post below records the red, white and blue paint job of the prime minister’s Airbus. That colour-scheme has drawn this snicker on Twitter from the much-loved MP from St. Paul’s, Dr. Carolyn Bennett. “O my … since when are Cdn colours red, white [and] BLUE.” Yes, colours are political. Mr. Harper said as much as he recalled his childhood in Leaside when he spoke here late in April. He recalled that the country was gripped by a debate over whether the new Canadian flag should contain two stripes of blue down each side to symbolize the Atlantic and Pacific. Harper’s mother and father wanted the red, white and blue flag. In the end, Lester Pearson the (ahem) Liberal Prime Minister accepted the present flag, which is very nice but just coincidentally is red on white. Mr. Pearson appears to have been a stand up guy, as they say, but we don’t know whether he would be as frank about his political appreciation of red as Harper is in his preference for blue. Politics aside, there is an awful lot of Canadian blue in our flags past and present. In fact we have lived under and saluted a national red, white and blue flag for many more years of our history than otherwise. Flags of blue from Alberta, Nova Scotia and Quebec are shown. There are lots more, including Ontario’s flag and you can see all the flags of red, white and blue at Wikipedia. Carolyn Bennett (St. Paul’s) and Canadian colours
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The post below records the red, white and blue paint job of the prime minister’s Airbus. That colour-scheme has drawn this snicker on Twitter from the much-loved MP from St. Paul’s, Dr. Carolyn Bennett. “O my … since when are Cdn colours red, white [and] BLUE.” Yes, colours are political. Mr. Harper said as much as he recalled his childhood in Leaside when he spoke here late in April. He recalled that the country was gripped by a debate over whether the new Canadian flag should contain two stripes of blue down each side to symbolize the Atlantic and Pacific. Harper’s mother and father wanted the red, white and blue flag. In the end, Lester Pearson the (ahem) Liberal Prime Minister accepted the present flag, which is very nice but just coincidentally is red on white. Mr. Pearson appears to have been a stand up guy, as they say, but we don’t know whether he would be as frank about his political appreciation of red as Harper is in his preference for blue. Politics aside, there is an awful lot of Canadian blue in our flags past and present. In fact we have lived under and saluted a national red, white and blue flag for many more years of our history than otherwise. Flags of blue from Alberta, Nova Scotia and Quebec are shown. There are lots more, including Ontario’s flag and you can see all the flags of red, white and blue at Wikipedia. 