At sea, things are a bit different. The Merchant Shipping Act lays out rules around what type of British ensign - an adaption of the Union flag designed for use on a boat - can be flown.

The Red Ensign - a modified version of the flag of the British merchant fleet - also was ... of Canadians born after the Second World War took to the country's new symbol. The government used ...

The Red Ensign flag is flown on British commercial vessels at sea The cargo ship Stena Impero, seized by Iran last week, was sailing under a British flag - but it was owned by a Swedish company ...

The second are white supremacists who have tried to make the Red Ensign into Canada’s Confederate battle flag. Finally ... the representation of anything British as an irredeemable symbol ...