First, let me say I DO think it's a pretty spiffy design. After playing with all kinds of variants on the Canadian flag, and being satisfied with none of them, it was close to an epiphany when something in my head said "Just FOLD it!"

But the irony is. . . I really don't like that flag! Ever since I was in my early teens, when it replaced the Red Ensign as Canada's flag, I just did not like it. Flags are supposed to speak of history. They grow, they mutate, they accumulate. The British and American flags are classic in this manner. But the Canadian flag is a design exercise. It was created virtually over night, and it has no history to it at all. In fact, it actually rejects history -- the insistence that the bars on the sides be red, instead of blue as originally suggested. "We don't want no stinkin' red, white and blue!" Never mind that blue bars would perfectly reflect Canada's motto, A Mari Usque ad Mare -- "From Sea to Sea". And isn't a red maple leaf, you know, DEAD?

Ah well! Long ago and far away!

I just had to see what JB's Guardian costume would have looked like with the red, white, and blue color scheme.

Looks pretty cool to me. Maybe even better but I hesitate to say that since it's still one of the coolest designs for a superhero costume ever done.