Government of Canada Quietly Changes Logo

Government of Canada Quietly Changes Logo

OTTAWA - Last night every Canadian government website underwent a small, but quite momentous change. The logo of the Government of Canada appears to have been officially changed in a way that places the imprint of the governing party on it like never before. The "C" in the Canada logo has been altered to be virtually identical to the logo of the Conservative Party of Canada (see above).

The Prime Minister's press secretary Dimitri Soudas tried to play down the significance of the logo change, "It's really just a natural progression for the logo of the Government of Canada, it's only a change of one letter," he said.

Soudas further noted why he felt that the recent uproar about Conservative MP Gerald Keddy presenting a ceremonial Government cheque with the Conservative Party logo on it was overblown. He explained it was simply a case of Keddy mistakenly distributing cheques in this format before the new government logo was officially unveiled. Soudas indicated that, from this point forward, all ceremonial cheques used for government announcements and signing ceremonies will have just the C (that looks identical to the Conservative logo) from the new government logo imprinted on them. "It's just a short-form of the new logo of the Government of Canada so I don't see why anyone would have any problem with that," he said.

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney was less guarded in his explanation of the logo change, "Real Canadians are all Conservatives, so this change in logo just reflects that reality," he said.

The change in logo has the political opposition parties fuming. Gerard Kennedy, Liberal Critic for Infrastructure, Cities and Communities, didn't mince words. "This is the most flagrant example of crass partisanship I've seen in my political career. This just goes to prove what we have been saying all along, that the Conservative Party only cares about serving their own interests, not those of Canadians. They can't help but politicize absolutely everything they do," he said

This may only be the beginning of what might be called the "re-branding" of the Government of Canada. Rumours have begun to swirl around Parliament Hill that the Government may soon place the $1 bill back into circulation with a surprising new twist. There's speculation that the new $1 bills would have a picture of Stephen Harper at a piano on them instead of the picture of the Queen that was on the bills when they were last in circulation.

Conservative strategists were buoyed by the positive reception the Prime Minister received for his performance of a classic Beatles tune at the NAC gala recently and it is thought they want to capitalize on this in a major way. Mr. Soudas would not confirm or deny the rumours, but did say that, were the $1 bill ever to go back into circulation, the Government would ensure it came back "in style."
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DISCLAIMER: The story above is (of course) NOT real (in case the labels of this post weren't already a give away).

I think we can all agree that no governing party in their right minds would ever tie their party logo to the work of the Government of Canada. That would be outrageous. Right Conservatives ??

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Blogging Tories' Spin: Conservatives Score Monumental Win in Cadman Case

A good source of mine (who shall remain anonymous) has leaked to me this e-mail chain to me of Blogging Tories' discussions that I think provides some good insight into why they've all been so silent on about Harper completely folding on the $3.5 million Cadman lawsuit that was supposed to be air tight. See below for all the details…
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From: Stephen Taylor
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 8:25:34 PM
To: Darryl Wolk; Christian Conservative; Angry in the Great White North; Blue Like You; Crux of the Matter; ChuckerCanuck; Small Dead Animals; Gay and Right
Subject: Re: Conservatives Score Monumental Win in Cadman Case

Ok fine I see some of you guys are being difficult so why don’t we all just agree to say nothing then? I’ve always been able to rely on you guys to do that in the past on Friday afternoon news dumps so thanks in advance! I trust the MSN won’t see this as news anyway. Thank goodness they aren’t as Liberal as we say they are!

Cheers,
Stephen

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From: Darryl Wolk
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 6:45:23 PM
To: Christian Conservative; Stephen Taylor; Angry in the Great White North; Blue Like You; Crux of the Matter; ChuckerCanuck; Small Dead Animals; Gay and Right
Subject: Re: Conservatives Score Monumental Win in Cadman Case

Stephen it’s time to stop the bs, it looks like we lost this thing and our party looks stupid now for starting the case in the first place. I think the best we can hope for is the media just ignores the story and that the Liberals keep quiet about it too and they don’t re-start committee hearings on this. I’m glad I haven’t blogged about this since May of 08 but I really wish I hadn’t bought into your spin at the case at the time. (http://darrylwolkpolitics.blogspot.com/search/label/Chuck%20Cadman).

-Darryl
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From: Christian Conservative
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 6:25:18 PM
To: Stephen Taylor; Darryl Wolk; Angry in the Great White North; Blue Like You; Crux of the Matter; ChuckerCanuck; Small Dead Animals; Gay and Right
Subject: Re: Conservatives Score Monumental Win in Cadman Case

OMG! Stephen I’ve swallowed A LOT from this party and have been a good soldier, even posting a lot of stuff I didn’t really buy that much, but this takes the cake! I”ll have no part of your HORRIBLE spin here!

Man do I feel dumb for listening to the party spin for so long on this and being so confident at the beginning (http://canadaconservative.blogspot.com/2008/03/harper-to-sue-liberals.html).
-CC
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From: Stephen Taylor
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 5:38:08 PM
To: Christian Conservative; Darryl Wolk; Angry in the Great White North; Blue Like You; Crux of the Matter; ChuckerCanuck; Small Dead Animals; Gay and Right
Subject: Re: Conservatives Score Monumental Win in Cadman Case

Yeah I agree with Janke and Kate, we easily come out ahead here (and Kate I’m thinking of a Kinsella angle as we speak!), we can sell this as a win I know we can. I’m telling you the Liberals really thought they had us beat on this thing, they were hoping we’d actually have to give more testimony in court! And surely the media will see things our way.

Not to worry at all guys, I wouldn’t want to be a Liberal right now that’s for sure!
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From: Angry in the Great White North
Sent: Friday, February 6, 2009 4:55:14 PM
To: Stephen Taylor; Christian Conservative; Darryl Wolk; Blue Like You; Crux of the Matter; ChuckerCanuck; Small Dead Animals; Gay and Right
Subject: RE: Conservatives Score Monumental Win in Cadman Case

Yeah please send some better talking points, I’m struggling to complete my post on this. I see how this is good you know we didn’t want the media or the Liberals digging deeper into the story, but I’d still like to get some better direction, so lil help pls!

-Janke
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From: Small Dead Animals
Sent: Friday, February 6, 2009 4:47:14 PM
To: Stephen Taylor; Christian Conservative; Darryl Wolk; Angry in the Great White North; Blue Like You; Crux of the Matter; ChuckerCanuck; Small Dead Animals; Gay and Right
Subject: RE: Conservatives Score Monumental Win in Cadman Case

Stephen you did tell us this was in the bag and I feel pretty stupid for all I wrote about this because of what you told us. But I’m willing to bite the bullet and go along with whatever message the party wants if you just send some better frigging talking points please! I’m sure we’ll beat the Liberals flimsy spin on this either way.

But is there any way we can turn this into a story about Kinsella? I’m sure we can all think of something here.

-SDA
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From: Stephen Taylor
Sent: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 4:37:13 PM
To: Christian Conservative; Darryl Wolk; Angry in the Great White North; Blue Like You; Crux of the Matter; ChuckerCanuck; Small Dead Animals; Gay and Right Re: Conservatives Score Monumental Win in Cadman Case
Subject: Re: Conservatives Score Monumental Win in Cadman Case

Ok guys I took Grumpy off, but why haven’t any of you posted on this yet? This is the best news we’ve had all week! We can’t let Liberal friendly CBC somehow put some sort of negative spin on this that works against us, we have to get in front of this thing!
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From: Stephen Taylor
Sent: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 4:25:42 PM
To: Christian Conservative; Darryl Wolk; Angry in the Great White North; Blue Like You; Crux of the Matter; ChuckerCanuck; Small Dead Animals; Gay and Right; Grumpy Voter
Subject: RE: Conservatives Score Monumental Win in Cadman Case

Alright Grumpy you’re gone from this group. We don’t take kindly to dissent around here, why don’t you try go joining Liblogs again you obviously don’t fit in here. Now that the Green Shift is gone (where you stayed on message with us from start to finish) you've outlived your usefulness. Let’s stay focused here guys, this is a win for us. Period.
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From: Grumpy Voter
Sent: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 3:46:05 PM
To: Stephen Taylor; Darryl Wolk; Angry in the Great White North; Blue Like You; Crux of the Matter; ChuckerCanuck; Small Dead Animals; Gay and Right
Subject: Re: Conservatives Score Monumental Win in Cadman Case

Stephen WTF! You say the LIBERALS dropped THEIR case against us? Are you on glue? We launched the case against them and YOU told us it would bankrupt the Liberal Party and be one of the smartest political moves the Conservatives ever made! You assured us that the case was air tight and that we could confidently predict victory! You said they'd be on their knees in the end just begging for US to let THEM go with by just giving US a retraction and apology! We didn't even get a frigging apology from them!

Even when Harper lost his lawyer YOU assured us all it was just because he was looking for a better one and that we “shouldn’t believe the media spin” that it was bad news for our case.

Unbelievable!

-Grumpy
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From: Stephen Taylor
Sent: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 3:21:54 PM
To: Christian Conservative; Darryl Wolk; Angry in the Great White North; Blue Like You; Crux of the Matter; ChuckerCanuck; Small Dead Animals; Gay and Right; Grumpy Voter
Subject: Conservatives Score Monumental Win in Cadman Case

Hi guys,

I have awesome news for you all! The Liberals have agreed to drop the Cadman case and they didn’t even ask us to make an apology! This is complete and total surrender on their part!

The media are going to be ALL OVER the Liberals on this one for their frivolous lawsuit against us!

I expect to see you all posting about our great victory starting now so we can shape the news appropriately.

Cheers,
Stephen

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UPDATE: For those who aren't sure what to think of this post, I would invite you to read the labels/tags that were present the minute it was posted as well as the first comment to this post that I posted within minutes of when this went up. If you click some of the tags you might see this isn't the first time I've done a post of like this either, just this one got a lot more attention, but I'm glad most people enjoyed it!

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How to Make Enemies and Irritate People

Leaked from the PMO comes a new guidebook for everyone who always wanted to have more enemies and get on people’s nerves but wasn’t sure of the best way to do it. Now experts Stephen Harper, John Baird and Jim Flaherty will show you how! From wars with the press, discouraging investment in pesky provinces, picking fights on the world stage, to every witty insult you could ever fling your opponents way, this book has it all! Even includes more up to date advice on how when you have no plans to accomplish anything worthwhile of your own in life you can slam anyone who does! If you love knocking people down or your lifelong goal is to have as many enemies as possible then this guidebook is for you!

Already those who have gotten an advance copy have been raving…..

“Best read in years. Chapter 2 on linking on your opponents to terrorists brought a tear to my eye”
- Dick Cheney, United States Vice-President

“Really Stephen learned all this from me”
- Brian Mulroney, Former Prime Minister

“I am so so proud of how these guys have conducted themselves in Ottawa. I have to say I don’t feel sad about leaving public office as long as these guys are carrying on my legacy”
- Mike Harris, Former Ontario Premier

“Wars with the press and the Premiers, meddling in U.S. elections, muzzling a weak caucus, and daily character assassination in the House of Commons, reading this reminds me why it has been so hard to leave these great guys behind. Truly class acts.”
- Ian Brodie, outgoing Chief of Staff to Stephen Harper

“This guidebook is gold. Once again we see how Harper is playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers. The way I see it the more enemies Harper makes the closer he is to a majority!”
- Stephen Taylor, Conservative blogger

“I was thrilled to see the brilliance of my ‘small man of Confederation’ comment finally explained to me”
- Peter Van Loan, Conservative Party of Canada House Leader and Minister of Democratic Renewal

“My Question Period playbook finally laid out to all! Now the masses will finally understand!”
- Pierre Poilievre, Conservative Party of Canada MP

“It’s a shame the Liberals made the Conservatives do all these terrible things. Stephane Dion should be apologizing to Canadians for making the Conservatives act this way.”
- Jack Layton, NDP leader

“This will serve as an invaluable resource in my quest to be the leader of the free world. I thought Bush had great ideas for my campaign, but wow these guys can’t be topped!”
- John McCain, United States Republican Party Presidential Nominee

“I look forward to working for these guys in Ottawa – if you thought they were mean before, just wait for part 2!”
- Guy Giorno, incoming Chief of Staff to Stephen Harper and former Chief of Staff to Mike Harris

It's destined to be a best seller!

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