The Canadian Red Ensign was our unofficial national flag from the early days of Confederation until it was replaced in 1965 by the present flag. No vote was taken, and the citizens of Canada were not asked. The new flag was simply forced through Parliament by the government of the day as part of their plan to "modernise" Canada, and was hoisted up the flagpole as our beautiful Canadian Red Ensign was lowered and retired into oblivion. 

Regardless as to what people might or might not think of our present national flag, the fact remains that the Canadian Red Ensign was the flag under which this nation was built, and under which we fought two world wars. It was also the flag that every Canadian born before 1965 had flying over them when they came into this world. It was our flag, and it is an intrinsic and important part of our great Canadian heritage.

The Canadian Red Ensign should be recognised as our nation's historical flag, and should be flown alongside the present flag at our historical monuments and institutions, and proudly displayed as a symbol of our nation's history.

Dominion Day 01 July

On July 9, 1982, the House of Commons smuggled through a private member’s bill abolishing a 115-year-old piece of Canada’s heritage, with less than two minutes of debate. Their haste spoke volumes, however, of the legislation’s rationale: that the symbols of people are merely playthings. So was born Canada Day, a name of happy-face banality.
To call ourselves a Dominion never was a statement of colonial servitude. It is a proud and beautiful name we chose for ourselves and gave to the world, drawn from the 72nd Psalm, "He shall have dominion from sea to sea," whence also comes our national motto. Only those ignorant of poetry and history could fail to understand this.
That is what is really at stake here: can we conceive of our nation in eternal now, not daring to imagine a greater future, not caring to remember a glorious past?
Give us back our Dominion Day.