The Department of National Defence set a "threshold of [outdoor] participation" last week, effectively doing away with ceremony when it's below -10C. - Globe and Mail, January 27, 2009
"The primary reason for setting this threshold is we are simply not equipped with ceremonial dress for extreme cold weather," one official said.
This strikes me as a lie, plain and simple. Ceremonial Guards outside in cold weather have worn greatcoats (and capes) since the Crimean War.
How was the new flag raised, with much pomp and ceremony, in February 1965, in the presence of an elderly Governor General Vanier, if not with a Guard of Honour (like everybody else on Parliament Hill) in greatcoats?
Unless someone has evidence to the contrary, this is simply a case of the DND anti-tradition brigade up to its usual mendacious (i.e. dishonest) work.
"The primary reason for setting this threshold is we are simply not equipped with ceremonial dress for extreme cold weather," one official said.
This strikes me as a lie, plain and simple. Ceremonial Guards outside in cold weather have worn greatcoats (and capes) since the Crimean War.
How was the new flag raised, with much pomp and ceremony, in February 1965, in the presence of an elderly Governor General Vanier, if not with a Guard of Honour (like everybody else on Parliament Hill) in greatcoats?
Unless someone has evidence to the contrary, this is simply a case of the DND anti-tradition brigade up to its usual mendacious (i.e. dishonest) work.