[Robin Craig]

Dear Barry,

thank you for the compliment, that is grand of you to say so.

Although not yet a Canadian myself, enough of my tax dollars have gone into the Canadian economy for me to consider myself Canadian. I am in the process of going the Citizenship route. I have enough close relatives, dead and alive who hold or held Canadian birth certificates or are buried in Canadian cemeteries to solidify that I have a Canadian connection also.

The Maple Leaf is such a powerful symbol it is too obvious to pass up using.

So far I have orders for these around the globe and I don't mind spreading Canadian pride.

There is also another reason for using it which is it forms part of a genuine article identity to my pieces. If one of these units fails for any reason I will replace it free of charge, if the Maple Leaf is missing it is a proven knock off item and I wont warranty that.

I expect with the passage of time that someone will buy one and make knock off items, I have been advised by a few very old and wise folks to expect that as a certainty.

The Maple Leaf will be very hard to reproduce exactly and there are some other proprietary details that having it have put into the product known only to myself and my machinist know, so we are confident that the Maple Leaf will protect things for a while.

Judging by my emails many see the value in an engineered product and I am tickled pink to be able to help others keep their Ferrets on the road. I on the other hand have to build my shop before I can restore my C/S 31 Ferret, but at least this starts to help me pay for various parts of that.

My thanks to Michael R who pointed out some grammar issues with my signature block.