Maple Leaf Flag and Confederate Flag

white supremacist: A fluke Or was Parliament far-sighted enough in 1965 to imagine our diversity in 2015 Certainly it rejected an unsightly runner-up: the same Maple Leaf flag flanked by a French Fleur-de-lys and a British Union Jack, according to The Chronicle Herald. We repudiated that historical baggage. It a beautifully inclusive ensign, one all Canadians can wave. Other places, unfortunately, wrap themselves in schisms of the past. Dylann Roof, a white supremacist who reportedly confessed to the shootings, posed with the slave-owners’ flag on Facebook. Following the massacre of nine black people in Charleston, S.C., the Confederate flag has become a flashpoint across the United States. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.