The
Canada's New Government
Countdown "Contest"!
(archive)
Final
update
October 27 , 2007
HUZZAH!!!
From the "Let-the-bells-ring-out-and-the-banners-fly" department:
It's
official: Tory government no longer new
October 25, 2007
OTTAWA
- They may have stretched linguistic latitude, but the Conservative government
has finally decided it can't keep calling itself Canada's New Government, 21 months
after being elected. The ubiquitous slogan has quietly disappeared from the federal
government's website and communications. Henceforth, it will just be known as
the bland but grammatically accurate Government of Canada.
Source:
Canada.com
If you're not Canadian and you're wondering what this New Government fuss is all about:
It started back in the summer of 2006 : "Tories
rebrand government to reflect change of guard: Old label dropped in favour of
'Canada's New Government' ("Like the rebranding of Coca-Cola as New Coke,
the Harper government is instructing some public servants to use the term "Canada's
New Government" instead of the traditional "Government of Canada.")
Which is their prerogative.
But after awhile, the lustre wore off the
label and it started sounding more and more like the theme for a Saturday Night
Live sketch.
Now, it's been quietly deep-sixed.
Finally.
I can start
being proud of my federal government again.
Not.
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NOTE: since there's no longer a "New" Government in Ottawa - for awhile, at least - there's no need for this page (the one you're now reading ) anymore, but I'll keep it online for awhile for a laugh or two and to show my special graphic prowess.
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April
2007 update:
Dissension in the Ranks of
Canada's
New Government??
Meet
Loyola Hearn, Fisheries
Minister Hearn questions |
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March
2007 Update:
New Government, meet Newer Government!
Nova
Scotia Joins with Canada's New Government
to Announce Patient Wait Times Guarantee
News
Release
March 26, 2007
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia - The Honourable Tony Clement,
Federal Minister of Health, and the Honourable Chris d’Entremont, Nova Scotia
Health Minister, today announced that Nova Scotia has agreed to establish a Patient
Wait Times Guarantee in radiation therapy for cancer by 2010, to be supported
by $24.2 million in federal Budget 2007 funding.
Source:
Health
Canada
Hey --- WAIT A MINUTE!
If
Steve Harper and his Tories came into power at the beginning of 2006 and they
still (in March 2007) call themselves Canada's New Government, what should Nova
Scotia's government, elected in June 2006, call itself ??
"Nova Scotia's
Newer-Than-You Government"?
"Nova Scotia's Answer to Canada's
New Government"?
"Nova Scotia's Too-Mature-To-Play-Silly-Word-Games
Government"?
<Your suggestion goes here.>
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UPDATE (September 12/06):
HUMPH!
So much for my funny Rick-Mercer-Photo-Challenge-style
contest!
When I decided to start this "contest" early in September, the plan was to have people download a copy of the "Canada's New Government" banner and to modify it to reflect the silliness of a self-promotion strategy that stresses the "newness" of the government, as if being new means being better. (Keep scrolling down this page for samples.)
Canada's New Government in the News! Propaganda
tactic backfires on 'Canada's new government' ***** Tories
rebrand government to reflect change of guard ***** Google Web Search Results: Google
News Search Results: Source: |
So...
Instead
of a contest, I'll just invite anyone to do a little cosmetic enhancement to the
Canada's New Government banner.
It's probably just as well, anyhoo, because
most people who contribute a design will be federal civil servants who will prefer
anonymity.
Like the creator of the modified banner above, they will ask me
not to publish their names. I will respect that request.
I
also realize that this assignment doesn't appear to be very "inclusive"
for the graphically-challenged types out there.
But if I could do all of the
samples below with my minimal graphic design skills using the MSPaint program
that comes bundled with 99.25% of personal computers today, so can you!
Factoids:
1.
"New"
adj. new·er, new·est
- Having been made or
come into being only a short time ago; recent: a new law.
- Recently obtained
or acquired: new political power; new money.
(...)
2. The Conservative Party of Canada won the federal election on January 23, 2006.
3. Stephen Harper was sworn in as Prime Minister on February 6.
So
how long will it take before the word "NEW" disappears from the graphics
on the Government of Canada home
page and the home page of
the Prime Minister?
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