National Flag Day: Wearing My Red and White Maple Leaf Top

Today marks National Flag Day in Canada.  It was sixty years ago today that the red and white maple leaf designed flag was raised on Parliament hill for the first time.  

Today also marks the day that all of our living former Prime Ministers are asking Canadians to raise the maple leaf in response to the economic war that the convicted felon and his republican cohort have declared on Canada.  

Canadians are quietly patriotic but since the convicted felon down south won the election last year and started talking about taking our country by economic force a whole new level of patriotism has surfaced across the country.   Not only has an organic buy Canadian movement emerged in the grocery store aisles, so has the merchandise that expresses how Canadians really feel about the disrespectful and hateful rhetoric coming from the United States politicians occupying the white house.  

Etsy seller:  Ginger MacDesigns

Etsy seller:  UnityBlockShop

I'm sticking with my me-made maple leaf shirt again today.  I am wearing it with pride.  I'm proud of my fellow Canadians that I overhear in the grocery store aisles talking about alternatives to American produce and processed foods options.  I'm proud that my country is standing up to the want-to-be mafia boss and convicted felon and we're standing up to the grocery stores that try to hide information and trick shoppers into buying American products.  Shoppers are not easily tricked by slapping a image of a maple leaf on a product or trying to cover up or mislabel the product's origin.  

Me-made cotton maple leaf printed top, OOP Butterick 6325.

I'm proud of my sovereign country, period.  And that is why I'm proudly wearing my red and white today while praying for the whole world during these disturbing and surreal times. 

Stand strong, keep sewing and happy National Flag Day!