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[Fishbone Jones]

May have nothing to do with the current discussion. Just a bit of an aside on the lion.

http://www.hampshireflags.co.uk/world-flags/allflags/ca-govg.html

The Canadian newspaper National Post reported on Monday, August 16, 1999, that a revised flag has been introduced for Canada's Governor-General. The revision is to the lion emblem in the flag. Governor-General Romeo LeBlanc did not like the attitude of the lion used previously. The lion, previously regardant and poking its tongue at observers, is now deprived of its claws and has its tongue politely hidden in its mouth. The change has been introduced gradually and quietly, but the new flag is already fluttering at the Governor-General's web site.

Actually, if you look, it became clawless, toothless, gaunt, no tongue and anorexic. It took Adrien Clarkson to restore it to it's full regal an dominant stature.