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A Flag for Soviet Canuckistan?

It probably doesn't do as much for comedy as, say, writing speeches for Richard Nixon. But in the spirit of humour that led good ol' Patrick Buchanan to refer to Our Home and Native Land as "Soviet Canuckistan", we hereby present a proposed flag for this socialist paradise.

The red represents either the blood of the workers, shed on innumerable rinks during pick-up shinny games, or the national debt; we haven't decided which yet. The band of blue represents either the sea to shining sea thing, or the colour sacred to our comrades in the Peoples' Semi-Republic of Quebecistan.

The coat of arms (forgive the primitive nature of these images; it's my first effort at creating this type of graphic, and the nature of Soviet Canuckistan is that we would rather do slipshod work and get it published, so long as we can blame the Americans for it...) consists of the following:

A hockey stick-and-sickle surmounted by a maple, leaf, or, enclosed in a wreath whose makeup is as follows:

• An outer component of braided Tim Horton's coffee cups
• An inner component of braided Stompin' Tom Connors LPs

Seriously. Regardless of what you think it looks like... We'll have you know that a committee of Peoples' Artists worked (or at least claims to have worked) for months on this project. The fact that the members of the committee now reside in the Moose Jaw Gulag is purely coincidental.