> But it's a fund-raising campaign run by a non-governmental entity.
No a poppy is not inherently part of a any fund-raising.
It's a symbol of remembrance.
You can buy poppies from anywhere, or make your own, and still be using it to remember.
No a poppy is not inherently part of a any fund-raising.
It's a symbol of remembrance.
You can buy poppies from anywhere, or make your own, and still be using it to remember.
You can't therefore buy remembrance poppies from anywhere - they pursue people who sell them and describe them as 'fraudulent', e.g. https://inews.co.uk/news/consumer/remembrance-day-2020-fake-...
It's been specifically trademarked to Royal Legion of Canada, and basically all the donation boxes you see in stores etc are from Royal Legion.
Again, nothing wrong with that, I support them, absolutely positively vast majority of Canadians do! But we also don't need to pretend it's not something that it legally and practically is.