'Gotta understand the poor folks, they more or less got kicked out of G-B, right? At least they wanted to keep a part of it on their flag. Then they just added a couple of stars that look like a question mark, and voila, you've got the perfect dominion flag. We in Canada just didn't bother and used the Union Jack for 60 years before putting it in the top left corner for a 100 more. Huzzah for the leaf!