Former fellow bureaucrat Patrick Reed credits the design of the "magnificent"
new Canadian flag to the "superbly talented" Jacques St. Cyr,
ably assisted and encouraged by Mr. Reid's Canadian Government Exhibition
Commission.
In reality, of course, the red maple leaf design already had been in extensive
use as a public and private Canadian "trade mark", most notably
perhaps by Canada Packers Ltd.
At the time, many aesthetically and historically superior alternatives
were available to the Government (including the popular and battle-tested
Red Ensign); however, they were rejected by the Pearson internationalists
in a determined effort to destabilize and unseat the traditionally conservative
and ethno-centric founding races while colluding in the subversion, now
virtually complete, of the political process by cosmopolitan elements serving
essentially non-Canadian interests, a phenomenon which successor governments,
both Liberal and Conservative, have done nothing to oppose.
Having sown the wind with the flag issue (followed by so-called Bilingualism,
Multiculturalism, Third World Immigration and reckless social policies)
the Government is now reaping the whirlwind of disunity and disintegration
from which only a small sophisticated minority are profiting.
Sincerely,
Ian Macdonald
August 7, 1990