The City of Windsor has updated its flag raising policy in an effort to mitigate risks to the city's reputation and reduce staff time.
As part of the updated policy, the Canadian flag, the Ontario flag, the City of Windsor flag, and the Franco-Ontarian flag are the only ones that will be permanently flown.
Other flag requests will only be granted if they are directly related to the City of Windsor through funding or a partnership, or if they correspond with relevant days of awareness, celebration, importance, or commemoration as recognized by either the provincial or federal government.
"At least having a checkpoint and being able to say does the federal government raise this flag or does the provincial government raise this flag, it gives us a good benchmark to make sure that we're on track and not doing something inadvertently that would be inappropriate," said Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens.
Councillors Kieran McKenzie, Fred Francis, and Angelo Marignani voted against the flag policy update.
"I think the current policy addresses all the things we need to address and what really concerns me is farming out that decision making to the province and the feds, cause I know federal governments change and provincial governments change and we only have to look down south to know that things can change in a direction we don't agree with," said Francis.
