{"id":16627,"date":"2025-02-16T02:52:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T02:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torontotribune.ca\/index.php\/2025\/02\/16\/canadians-celebrate-national-flag-day-across-b-c-bc\/"},"modified":"2025-02-16T02:52:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T02:52:17","slug":"canadians-celebrate-national-flag-day-across-b-c-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torontotribune.ca\/index.php\/2025\/02\/16\/canadians-celebrate-national-flag-day-across-b-c-bc\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadians celebrate National Flag Day across B.C. – BC"},"content":{"rendered":"


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A sense of patriotism is sweeping across the country amid a looming trade war between the U.S. and Canada. And Canadians have a clear message for U.S. President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNow is the time for Canada to have those trading relationships, to ensure that we\u2019re buying Canadian, that we\u2019re building Canada, and we\u2019re building a stronger economy,\u201d said New Westminster\u2013Burnaby MP Peter Julian.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, on this Flag Day, we are saying to Donald Trump, we will never be the 51st state.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Now more people are choosing to purchase and fly their own Canadian flag.<\/p>\n

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At Flying Colours International in Port Coquitlam staff say Canada flag sales have quadrupled in recent days.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe phones have been ringing off the hook and people have been coming into the store. One of the neat things to see is that people that maybe have not had a Canada flag before, that are now coming in to buy one,\u201d said Julia Izadi of Flying Colours.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNormally, this time of year, we\u2019re preparing for Canada Day in July, so we were not expecting that. But thank goodness we do stock and manufacture flags here, so we were able to really respond quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a group of proud Canadians found a different way to showcase their patriotism just north of Kelowna by shovelling a massive Canada Flag on top of Ellison Lake.<\/p>\n

The finished flag is one-acre in size and was finished just in time for National Flag Day.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to do something patriotic for the country with all the things going on in the world today,\u201d said Stuart Sutton, who helped shovel the large flag.<\/p>\n

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