Christopher McCreery has an opinion piece in today's Globe & Mail here, arguing the government was correct in ordering the Red Ensign flown at the Vimy war memorial in France.
McCreery did a PhD on the Canadian honours system, so he has expertise few can match. But I don't find any of his arguments at all persuasive. Sure the French royal banner can be flown at Louisbourg -- Louisbourg is a recreation of a 1744-era community. Vimy does not recreate the Vimy of 1917. It is where we today honour what happened there at Easter 1917. It deserves the real Canadian flag.
McCreery was a lively interview for a Beaver column I did years ago. Come to think of it, we disagreed then too. He thought Conrad Black was entitled to be a British lord and a Canadian citizen too. I did not. Do not.
