UPDATED: see new—possibly more acceptable-to-liberals—picture below
UPDATE #2: Apparently the Dep’t of National Defence has now backed-down. I guess maybe they smelled a backlash. Or they read PTBC. Or both.
What’s wrong with THIS picture? I’ll tell you what’s wrong: It’s located in once liberal-governed Canada—a nation still replete with liberal bureacrats from north to south, east to west, head to toe, top to bottom, who think like liberals.
Oh and the sign is presented by the good National Citizens Coalition. And that ain’t liberal.
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Our friend Gerry Nicholls, VP of the NCC, writes it up on his blog:
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The Department of National Defence is ordering us (the National Citizens Coalition) to take down a “Support our Troops” billboard we put up in downtown Toronto.
The DND is also telling us to remove any reference to “Support our Troops” from our website and to stop handing out “Support our Troops” car magnets.
Why?
Because of some stupid and vague law.
Section 291 of the National Defence Acts states:
1) Every person who uses
(a) the words “Canadian Forces” or “Canadian Armed Forces” or the name of any component, unit or other element thereof or any abbreviation thereof or any words or letters likely to be mistaken therefore,
(b) any picture or other representation of a member of the Canadian Forces, or
(c) any uniform, mark, badge or insignia in use in the Canadian Forces,
in any advertising or in any trade or service, having been requested in writing by the Minister to cease that usage, is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.
In other words, says the DND, it’s a crime for us to express gratitude to the men and women who are risking their lives to defend our freedoms!!
Something is very wrong here.
I can understand a law prohibiting improper use of military symbols for advertising, but citizens should be permitted to make what are essentially patriotic statements.
Could you imagine such a law being enforced in the United States??
What makes all this worse, is that the NCC was using these “Support our Troop” ads to raise awareness about a special trust fund we were setting up to aid the families of soldiers killed in action.
Either the government has got to stop enforcing this law so zealously or they should change the law.
Canadians should have the right to express thanks to our troops!
UPDATE: Maybe they should try this one (click):
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