Talk:John Matheson

Factual inaccuracy and Advertising/Promotional Material

A large chunk of text at the end of the "Honours" section in the Wikipedia article on JOHN MATHESON has been copied from the following web site: http://www.50yearsofourflag.ca/. The "50 Years of Our Flag" website is the voice of a community lobby group working to have Brockville, Ontario, declared the "Official Birthplace of the Canadian Flag ". This type of advertising/promotional information is inappropriate for posting on Wikipedia.

The text also contains factual inaccuracy. As two letters to the Brockville Recorder newspaper indicate (see http://www.recorder.ca/2013/05/15/letters-to-the-editor-may-15-2013 and http://www.recorder.ca/2013/05/17/letters-to-the-editor-may-17-2013), the original design (and rationale for that design) for the Canadian flag was created in Kingston, Ontario (not Brockville, Ontario) on 23 March 1964 in a formal memorandum written by Dr. George F.G. Stanley, then Dean of Arts at the Royal Military College of Canada. John Matheson acknowledged Dr. Stanley's role in creating the flag design just after the design was approved by the House of Commons in Ottawa on 15 December 1964: "Your proposed flag has just now been approved by the Commons 163 to 78. Congratulations. I believe it is an excellent flag that will serve Canada well."

John Matheson did play a significant role as the Liberal Government's political handler for the controversial flag initiative. He was the "salesman", not the "ideas person". However, the important events relating to the creation of the Canadian Flag took place in Kingston and Ottawa, not Brockville. The fact that Matheson, as local Member of Parliament, happened to live in Brockville at the time does not make that community the "Official Birthplace of the Canadian Flag ". To claim it as such is to deny the historical facts. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fitzdavid (talk • contribs) 13:27, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

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