He hates our Canada and its values with a passion, so it follows that Stephen Harper would hate its most powerful and beautiful symbol.
He spent almost nothing to celebrate its fiftieth birthday.
The federal government has allotted $50,000 for celebrations for the upcoming 50th birthday of the iconic Maple Leaf flag.
That's compared to almost $4 million for a campaign marking the 200th anniversary of Sir John A. Macdonald's birth, and $5.2 million spent on the bicentennial of the War of 1812.
So this couldn't be more hypocritical.
Two days ago in the freezing cold of this never-ending winter, I noticed a swan lying weak from hunger on the frozen lake, while its partner looked anxiously on.
Unable to understand what was happening, why there is almost no open water this year. No place to draw the food from it needs to survive.
I did my best to revive it by hand feeding it baby spinach leaves, but it was only strong enough to eat a couple, before it tucked its head into its feathers and went back to sleep again.
And when I went back to feed it today I found it had died.
I'm sure it was just a coincidence eh? Just another leafy victim of this massive thunderstorm that smashed into Toronto yesterday.
But how ironic that just days after the Con regime announced it's taking the maple leaf insignia off the shoulders of our soldiers, the Maple Leaf Forever tree should come crashing to the ground.
