— Musings —06.25.2011 03:30 PM
The Ontario NDP platform: they’ll pass a law to “buy in Ontario” only….
…(see on page 25) except when it comes to their own platform, apparently! Throughout it, pictures they pass off as Ontarians are really pix taken of Americans, by American photographers!
Ok. I am feeling a bit disappointed. A picture?
So nice to see an election unfolding in the normal Canadian fashion. Liberals have already won. Tories are divided. NDP can’t catch a beat. I remember reading about elections like this in a history book.
An all-white people group photo of ‘workers’? In 2011? Added blue tint doesn’t make it diverse or inclusive.
Well that’s just shocking and absolutely outrageous…. /endsarcasm
An awful lot of layout artists use iStock photos. And I haven’t seen a lot of political pamphlets that show non-set-up photos, so I’m not really sure what difference this makes.
Now, that the NDP platform seems to depend on frequent plucking from some mystical money tree — that makes a difference to me.
This may be true, but I still find it a bit disappointing. Why not spring for a real photographer? Of course this criticism goes to crap if the Ont. libs do the same thing. Hopefully they won’t.
Don’t see this is a little deal, let alone a big one. EVERY party uses these sorts of pictures and EVERY party has played gotcha with it and also got caught with it. There has not been an election yet where the “story” had any traction whatsoever and it won’t this time.
Far more interesting is the low turnout you refer to at the converntion. By the way were there really that many people at the Federal convention last weekend?
The Dippers are dreaming if they think they have a snowball’s chance in hell in October. Shenanigans in Ottawa are proving the Federal party is a protest vote not an alternative government (good news for you Liberals) and the stench of Bob Rae and Floyd Laughren is till way to fresh for the orange wave to happen this fall.
The only question this election is if the Liberals can succeed in chipping away at Tim Hudak or conversely whether the PCs can seal the deal on the tax man Dalton McGuinty.
Federally the NDP were only marginally better then the Liberals in Ontario 2011. That momentum will wain as the reality of filibusters and amateur hour remind people who Jack Layton really is and he will become a liability to the provincial party, not the asset they hoped for only a few weeks ago.
Love how they use one of the photos for the job creation section…yup. NDP: Sending jobs out of Ontario for 50 years!
iStockphoto is Canadian, although the photos themselves could be from anywhere.
If iStockphoto is Canadian, where is the comment “pix taken of Americans, by American photographers” based on? Is Warren sure?
iStockphoto WAS Canadian, it was taken over by Getty Images of Seattle a while ago now. And last I checked, Washington state is not a part of Canada.
Yawwwwwwwn.
istockphoto is sttill very much based in Calgary.
Suite 200 – 1240 20th Ave SE
Calgary, Alberta T2G 1M8
Canada
Warren’s hometown, I believe.
The photographers, and the subjects they use, were American. Do your research.
Arguably more Canadian than Michael Ignatieff 🙂
About this buy Ontario business, where are they going to get their oil from?
Hey Warren,
You see this image: http://www.ontarioliberal.ca/Portals/0/energyplan-145.jpg ? Taken from here: http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-7618481-environment.php
Or: http://www.ontarioliberal.ca/Portals/0/fdp-145px.jpg ? Here: http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-7350807-prescription-pills.php
How about this: http://www.ontarioliberal.ca/Portals/0/HomeBanners/OL-WelcomeBanner-IS-en.jpg ? Found here: http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-7714133-guys-studying.php
I daresay all political parties make use of iStockphoto and the like. Shocking, I know.
Again: no other party has a promise – on the same page they use an American photographer’s photo of an American model – to buy only in Ontario.
Do you get the point? It’s pretty straightforward.
Well, the current ruling party of Ontario authorized the use of stock photos on this page: http://www.sse.gov.on.ca/medt/investinontario/en/Pages/_why_ontario.aspx (http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-2095641-business-team-with-sales-chart.php and http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-10754987-mother-and-daughter-having-fun-in-an-autumn-forest.php)
Yes, let’s sell Ontario as a place to do business using American stock photos!
How about we read about success stories of companies in Ontario… http://www.ontariocanada.com/ontcan/1medt/en/news_success-stories_en.jsp
Look at that happy Ontarian woman with her arms in the air… in a photo bought from Jupiterimages (http://www.jupiterimages.com/Image/royaltyFree/89689790)
Ontario is open for business: http://www.ontariocanada.com/ontcan/1medt/en/ofb_main_en.jsp …with a welder stock photo (http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-6007252-worker-with-protective-mask-and-gloves-grinding-welding-metal.php), since all the manufacturing jobs are slowly but surely leaving the province.
They use stock photos to promote all sorts of economic topics concerning Ontario.
Hey, I use iStockphoto in my line of work all the time – it’s cheaper than hiring a professional photographer and getting people to be in the photos and spending an entire day getting those shots set up.
Again: do you not think it noteworthy that the NDP say they will legislate “buy in Ontario” ON THE VERY SAME PAGE where they used American models, photographers and stock photos?
Am I not making the point clear enough?