One Country, One Flag<\/a>,\u201d was filed by Councillor Jon Burnside (Don Valley East) and seconded by Councillor Michael Thompson (Scarborough Centre) and looks to ban flags from foreign countries and flags requested by non-profits, advocacy groups, and other charitable organizations.\u00a0<\/p>\nAccording to the motion\u2019s agenda, flags that can still fly in front of city hall are: the City of Toronto flag, the Canadian flag, flags of provinces and territories, flags of Indigenous and Treaty partners, the Intersex Pride flag, and the Black Liberation flag.<\/p>\n
Additionally, flags belonging to professional sports organizations and flags of cities that are part of Toronto\u2019s International Alliance program will still be allowed.<\/p>\n
In an interview with Now Toronto, Burnside says he filed the motion due to the threats levied by the United States to Canada\u2019s sovereignty and economy.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve had all the elbows up and shop Canadian campaigns and I think this is really an extension of that,\u201d he explains. \u201cWe\u2019re all Canadians and we need to rally around our flag.\u201d<\/p>\n
Burnside says he believes a flag is \u201csomething people rally around and is supposed to bring us together.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve found flying flags of certain groups and countries has really been a focal point for division. And that\u2019s not what city hall is about,\u201d he says. \u201cOur mandate is to bring people together and to do whatever we can to accomplish that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The councillor further explains his stance, saying he looks out the window of his Bay Street office and says he has seen riot police \u201cmarching up and down in preparation of whatever group is there to cause problems about the flying of the flag of another group.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are lots of places to fly a flag, but when it comes to government buildings, whether it\u2019s our civic centres or City Hall, we need to be focused on our country and our flag and bringing people together.\u201d<\/p>\n
The \u201cOne Country, One Flag\u201d motion will be considered by city council on Thursday, March 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to know Don Valley East Councillor Jon Burnside has introduced a new motion aimed at banning foreign…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,133449,215487,215488,3302,205158],"class_list":{"0":"post-556094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-city-hall","11":"tag-jon-burnside","12":"tag-michael-thompson","13":"tag-toronto","14":"tag-toronto-city-council"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}