For shame. The Legion is trying to market the poppy. The vets have been listening to too many lawyers.
The Royal Canadian Legion has told an Ottawa-based internet news site to stop using its poppy image to commemorate Remembrance Day.
Pierre Bourque removed the Canadian poppy symbol from his website and replaced it with a British poppy image after warning e-mails from the legion’s poppy and remembrance committee.
The committee said unauthorized use of the poppy symbol could reduce the flower’s value as a symbol of war remembrance, according to e-mail excerpts that Bourque posted on his site.
“The poppy is a trademark of the legion and anyone who wants to use it has to apply,” wrote Bob Butt, the communications director of the organization’s Dominion Command. “Otherwise it would be all over the place.”[ link to source]
And we can’t have that. Heavens! Poppies “all over the place”
As Bourque points out The British Legion has a different attitude. For example they encourage people to send a poppy image to their friends on Facebook! So that they will do what they are intended to do – Remind people of the sacrifices of our veterans and those who never got to be veterans.
This attitude of the Legion – evident the last couple of years– is the reason we have been supporting the War Amps recently.
Wolfville watch 
What??? That is just crazy.
I understand and generally agree with your point of view here, but I can also understand the legion’s position of wanting to protect its trade-mark. It’s a tough call in a situation like this.
But really, one would think the legion would want a symbol like the poppy to “be all over the place”, “lest we forget”, as the poem goes.
This seems to be an issue around every remembrance day in recent years. Last year a legion in Edmonton tried to stop anti-war activists from using white poppies with the word “peace” in the middle. (See this post on the Canadian Trademark Blog: http://www.trademarkblog.ca/protected-poppies/) Not sure if they were successful.
It is one thing, we think, to defend the trade-mark when you see inappropriate use, another to tell every Tom, Dick and Harriet trying to support veterens and the Legion not to use what they see as the appropriate symbol.
Couldn’t they could use some case by case judgement on whether to go after someone?
We remember the white-poppy campaign and remarked on it at the time.
https://dubyadubya.wordpress.com/?s=white+poppy