Manitoba government makes fixes to giant Canadian flag after adopting it from Blue Bombers

Steve Lambert · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Apr 10, 2025 7:12 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 minutes ago

The ample Canadian emblem that was precocious draped connected the beforehand of the Manitoba Legislature is being repaired for a 2nd clip and is being adopted by the provincial government.

The nine-by-18-metre emblem was spot of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers shot squad and was brought retired onto the tract for the nationalist anthem earlier each location game.

The provincial authorities borrowed it successful aboriginal March and had it hung supra the legislature's main entranceway arsenic a awesome of the absorption to tariffs threatened by U.S. President Donald Trump.

Strong Prairie winds caused immoderate tearing and it was taken down, repaired and enactment backmost up again successful clip for a "Rally for Canada" past play that saw hundreds of radical stitchery successful beforehand of the legislature.

The northbound upwind caused much rips. As a result, the NDP authorities has offered to clasp onto the emblem and bargain the shot nine a caller one.

"We privation to bargain them a caller elephantine emblem to regenerate the 1 that they lent america and of course, they're trying to say, successful a precise Canadian way, 'No, no, we won't perceive immoderate of that. We were readying to bargain a caller emblem anyways,"' Premier Wab Kinew said Thursday.

"So there's a spot of a back-and-forth there, but we're going to bargain them a caller elephantine emblem … and we'll person a elephantine emblem for provincial purposes."

There are immoderate logistical matters to fig out, specified arsenic wherever to decently store thing of that size and however it mightiness beryllium transported without causing further damage.

Setting it up tin beryllium a somewhat daunting task. Workers successful gangly lifts known arsenic cherry pickers were seen drilling into the chromatic legislature past period successful bid to anchor the emblem successful respective spots.

Kinew envisions the emblem being brought retired for nationalist events crossed the province.

"Right now, it's successful the repair shop, truthful to talk … and decidedly we learned a batch astir managing a emblem similar that," helium said.

"It's not going to beryllium successful a retention country gathering dust. We privation to usage this awesome to observe the pridefulness everyone's feeling for our state close now."