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Before the debate, Canada had used the British Red Ensign with Canada's coat of arms on it.
In 1958, a poll was taken of the opinions that adults held toward the flag.Out Of those who expressed opinions, over 80% wanted a national flag entirely different that any other, and 60% wanted their flag to have the maple leaf.everybody wanted 'A flag to suit the minority.'
The Flag Debate, the debate over the proposition of the new Canadian flag, which had opened in the House of Commons June 15th, 1964, and ended by December 15th 1964. Canada's official flag from 1867 had been Britain's Union Flag. In 1925, the Prime Minister appointed an armed services committee to see new possible designs, but it had never happened.
The flag was officially accepted on February 15, 1965, at an official ceremony held on Parliament Hill. A lot of people came, including the Canadian parliamentarians.
When the Debate had started, A historian named George Stanley had wrote a letter to John Matheson. Stanley wrote to John Matheson talking about his ideas for what the flag should represent, and what it should look like. At the end of his letter he had sketched out the very first image of what would become the new flag for our country. A rectangle in red, with red on each side, and in the middle with a white background, a maple leaf.
The Great Canadian Flag Debate, rigged?!?!?
Reid Scott said that he had “rigged” the final vote to make sure that the parliament flag committee chose the one-leafed flag that has been across Canada since February 1965.
“I admit it, I rigged the vote. I’d be a fool to deny it,”
“I don’t call it trickery, I call it legal manoeuvring. It’s quite legitimate. I didn’t commit any crime.” says Reid Scott.
The voting committee had been made up of fifteen people from the parliament.The people were: Chairman Herman Maxwell Batten,Léo Cadieux,Grant Deachman,Jean-Eudes Dubé,Hugh John Flemming,Margaret Konantz,Raymond Langlois,Marcel Lessard,Joseph Macaluso,John Matheson,Jay Monteith,David Vaughan Pugh,Reynold Rapp,Théogène Ricard, and Reid Scott.