The Trillium Controversy

The Liberal government of Ontario, the government everyone loves to hate, has changed the provincial logo at the tune of over $200,000 Canadian (that's around $5 for you Americans out there).

People are outraged. You can read the story here, and the reader reactions here. I can save you the effort of actually reading the reactions and say that pretty much everyone hates the new logo. I have to agree with this on this one. I prefer the cleaner, older logo designs to the new "corporate" one that doesn't really resemble a trillium so much as, as one reader described it, "a Christmas tree about to fall over." For those of you who do not know what a trillium is, here is a picture of one:

People are also complaining because the new Ontario logo resembles the Liberal party's logo. Personally, I don't really see a huge resemblance save for the slanty thing they have going... but perhaps I am looking at the wrong logo.

Anyway, this, along with the last Liberal corruption scandal with some advertising agency and a piddly amount of money, passes for controversy in Canada. Frankly, while I DO consider redesigning logos to be a huge waste of time, the fiasco with the University of Kansas versus Kutztown University is a case in point, I think the Canadans should count themselves as lucky that this is as bad as it gets.