Trudeau placards already up
Mr Trudeau met my eye first thing Wednesday on a street corner in Papineau. Note the trendy row of icons – they’re everywhere now in graphic design, as if the eye needs to be soothed by web‑like layout even in print. Admittedly, this kind of nonverbal communication also transcends linguistic barriers. Trudeau also looks meatier and more athletic than he’s usually shown. No suit and tie here.
Meezly 10:47 on 2019-09-11 Permalink
I don’t dispute that our PM is a good looking guy, but I’m sure there was quite a bit of Photoshopping done. I can imagine the marketing team agonizing over what to airbrush. “Hmm, let’s keep the laugh creases to make him more down to earth, but we gotta smooth out those forehead lines, cuz y’know, we don’t want him to look like he’s worried about losing the election.”
Kate 10:55 on 2019-09-11 Permalink
Meezly, I can totally hear that. Also some head-clutching over the icons.
Alex 11:22 on 2019-09-11 Permalink
The 2nd one down I get ‘guy in backpack holding a head on a tray’
lagatta à montréal 11:46 on 2019-09-11 Permalink
Or compulsory parenthood?
Kate 12:52 on 2019-09-11 Permalink
Well, he is always going on about middle class families, families, families. I don’t think it crosses his mind that a sizable portion of his own riding’s residents live alone and a lot are not middle class.
Blork 13:32 on 2019-09-11 Permalink
I see that second icon as “Give people wedgies.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedgie
Ant6n 14:12 on 2019-09-11 Permalink
Somebody should hold a contest to come up with honest versions of the icons.
mare 14:55 on 2019-09-11 Permalink
We’ll appropriate the maple leaf, just like the PQ appropriated the fleur de lis, because we are Canada.
We promise to add so much carbon to the environment that you can barely keep your child’s head above the rising water because of climate change.
We promise to cut all the trees to make mulch and toilet paper.
We promise to mine more in dictatorships using slave labour, dig up all of the tarsands and make the profits of Canadian multinationals soar without them paying Canadian taxes.
We promise to take your house from you when you can’t afford it anymore because the collapse of the economy, and lease it back to you.
Vote Liberal!
(The Conservatives and the NDP will do most of the above things too, because economy and jobs are more important than anything.)
CE 20:12 on 2019-09-11 Permalink
That looks like an ash leaf. Maybe he’s saying he’s going to defeat the Emerald Ash Boarer
Kate 21:22 on 2019-09-11 Permalink
I think the bottom icon is suggesting that Trudeau is the Doctor (Who).