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“I love it,” he says of the flag. “It means the greatest country in the world.”
That kind of unbridled love of country is a rarity in Canada, with the exception of the Olympics, Stanley Cup finals and, of course, Canada Day. July 1 may see plenty of waving flags, but then they go back into storage. Into the basement. Back in a box in the garage. Anywhere but still on display.
Despite decades of efforts, some of them controversial, to get more Canadians to fly the flag as much as our neighbours to the south do, we still have an ambivalent relationship with the Maple Leaf, loving what it stands for but not wanting to make too much of it.