Next on The Cancel Culture Dead Pool

Vincent J. Curtis

25 July 21

RE: It’s time to modernize Ontario’s flag. By Torstar columnist Bob Hepburn.  Published in the Hamilton Spectator 24 July 21.

No doubt about it, Bob Hepburn’s column needs to be replaced.  It doesn’t reflect modern-day diversity and distinctiveness.  Hepburn is just another old white guy, interchangeable with practically any other Torstar male columnist.  Hepburn tediously regurgitates boilerplate progressive bromides.

Hepburn’s column, however, did warn us of the next item on the Cancel Culture Dead Pool: the Ontario flag.

Being so old, Hepburn received an Ontario education, when it was still good.  He ought to know that “British-themed” is the world’s best example of diversity and unity.

At one time, Canada’s national flag was similarly British-themed, as were most of the provinces.  The flag of the Hudson Bay Company was similarly themed, as were the flags of British India and Hong Kong, to name a few.  At its height, the British Commonwealth united a fifth of the world’s people and compassed a quarter of the world’s land mass.  It was simultaneously the largest Muslim nation and Hindu nation in the world.  The only reason Canada took immigrants from Hong Kong, India, and Pakistan was because of their membership in the Commonwealth.  What could be a greater symbol of diversity, unity, and peace than a British themed flag?

“Pearson’s pennant” was designed to show exclusivity, not inclusivity.

Hepburn let the cat out of the bag, informing us that after Macdonald, Ryerson, Dundas, other fathers of confederation, the Catholic Church, and heterosexuality, the next item on the woke Dead Pool is Ontario’s flag.

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