'NATIONAL FLAG' UPSETS PATRIOTIC CANADIAN

Dear editor,

There are several folk around town selling flags this week. Most of
them are soccer team flags for supporting your favourites in the
World Cup. This is fine and a source of national pride for the
countries involved in the World Cup.

However, one of these flags on display, very prominently at Alcott
and Guelph Sts., was a red and white flag similar to our country's
flag approximately 3ft. by 4ft.

The major difference in this flag was that the red maple leaf had
been replaced by a marijuana leaf also in red.

That someone could come along and desecrate our county's flag and
openly and brazenly display it on a major intersection in town defies belief.

I personally was incensed by this display but when I approached the
vendor he told me his boss had ordered him to display it and he had no choice.

It was my impression that to alter any national flag in any way was
illegal. If that is not so, then this display, to say the least, was
a direct insult to Canadians and in extremely poor taste.

A proud Canadian

John Tatham,

Georgetown