An image that appears both on the Department of Finance website and on the front of a printed pamphlet promoting last mont’s budget shows a sleek locomotive next to a double-decker of the kind seen around Southern Ontario.
The patterns of decorative paint on the train match exactly the distinctive design on GO Trains, with one major difference: the flare on the GO Trains is green, not blue. The GO Train logo has also been disappeared.
The number of the locomotive, 633, pictured in the budget materials looks to be a real Bombardier GO Train photographed by a trainspotter in Mississauga in 2011.
The Conservatives have drawn flack before for changing the colour palate of government websites to party blue and, again, when the Department of National Defence announced it would repaint the executive jet flies Prime Minister Stephen Harper from a neutral, gun-metal grey to a white and blue scheme.
In this case, the Department of Finance says it did not order Photoshopping of the GO Trains, and points to a unilateral decision made by Ottawa-based advertising firm, Acart Communications.
“The advertising agency (Acart) was responsible for the Budget creative, including the colour scheme, that was used for all print products,” said spokesperson Stephanie Rubec in an email.
“No instructions were given to Acart to change the colour of the train.”
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Source: blogs.ottawacitizen.com
Author: Glen McGregor
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