Why?
The newly elected Conservative government will no longer lower the flag to half-mast every time a Canadian soldier is killed, saying the automatic flag-lowering was a break with tradition by the Liberals.
"We have returned to the 80-year tradition of remembering all casualties of war or operations on one day - Nov. 11th," Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor said.
"We've just returned to a tradition."
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Before the Paul Martin Liberals were in power, it would be unusual for flags to be lowered when soldiers died in the course of duty, O'Connor said.
"For a few years . . . the previous government was inconsistent," the minister told an Ottawa news conference Saturday.
"We've gone back to the previous tradition."
"Within the Defence Department we are following our policies and you'll see, at the appropriate places, the flags are at half-mast."
Call your MP and demand that those soldiers be honoured on the federal level by the government who has been elected to serve all of us - not just their Conservative paranoia of being linked to a Liberal policy.
Canada is at war.
How dare they refuse to lower the flags at the symbol of the heart of our democracy - Parliament Hill? That place belongs to all of us, not just the Conservatives who are running it right now.
Those we've lost:
-Cpl. Matthew Dinning, of Richmond Hill, Ont., but stationed with the 2nd Canadian Mechanized Brigade in Petawawa, Ont.
-Bombardier Myles Mansell, of Victoria.
-Lieut. William Turner, of Toronto, but stationed in Edmonton.
-Cpl. Randy Payne, born in Lahr, Germany, but stationed at CFB Wainright, Alta.
May they rest in peace.
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