Calgary City Council has voted to ban the raising of foreign national flags at City Hall weeks after a Palestinian flag was raised for the first time at the venue amid backlash.
Council voted to remove sections of its Flag Policy to prohibit foreign flags from being raised at City Hall. The motion was introduced at its Dec. 15 regular council meeting by Coun. Dan McLean, who said the policy had become a “source of division within our community.”
“In recent months, this practice has been in use in ways that I’ve seen have inflamed tensions, including instances where flag raisings have been associated with anti-Semitic behavior and messaging,” McLean said during the council meeting….