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"I am pleased to join with all Canadians in the celebration of this unique and cherished symbol of our country and identity."
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Flag of Canada
The national flag of Canada, popularly referred to as the Maple Leaf, consists of a red field with a white square at its centre in the horizontal ratio of 1∶2∶1, in which is featured one stylized, red, 11-pointed maple leaf charged in the centre. It is the first flag to have been adopted by both houses of Parliament and officially proclaimed by the Canadian monarch as the country's official nation
"I am pleased to join with all Canadians in the celebration of this unique and cherished symbol of our country and identity."
"The red and white Maple Leaf is not a flag that normally stirs intense passions among Canadians.Schoolchildren do not pledge allegiance to it, and there is nothing old or particularly glorious about the Maple Leaf, designed by committee and adopted in 1965 as the result of yet another of Canadas many political compromises."