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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 816375" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p>Monday March 14th is Commonwealth Day.......</p><p> </p><p>Canada......</p><p>In Canada, the only official recognition is a federal government stipulation that the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Flag" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0645ad">Royal Union Flag</span></a> be flown alongside Canada's flag at government installations nationwide, "where physical arrangements allow.... Physical arrangements means the existence of at least two flag poles".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Day#cite_note-UK_Flag-2" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0645ad">[3]</span></a> The 1964 parliamentary resolutions creating the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Canada" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0645ad">Maple Leaf flag</span></a> also retained the Union Flag as an official symbol of Canada's membership in the Commonwealth, and allegiance to the Crown.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Day#cite_note-UK_Flag-2" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0645ad">[3]</span></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 816375, member: 1246"] Monday March 14th is Commonwealth Day....... Canada...... In Canada, the only official recognition is a federal government stipulation that the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Flag"][COLOR=#0645ad]Royal Union Flag[/COLOR][/URL] be flown alongside Canada's flag at government installations nationwide, "where physical arrangements allow.... Physical arrangements means the existence of at least two flag poles".[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Day#cite_note-UK_Flag-2"][COLOR=#0645ad][3][/COLOR][/URL] The 1964 parliamentary resolutions creating the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Canada"][COLOR=#0645ad]Maple Leaf flag[/COLOR][/URL] also retained the Union Flag as an official symbol of Canada's membership in the Commonwealth, and allegiance to the Crown.[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Day#cite_note-UK_Flag-2"][COLOR=#0645ad][3][/COLOR][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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