Blair Wilson is in the running for something. It isn't the Olympics. But that didn't stop the West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea-to-Sky Country Liberal candidate's campaign from putting a picture of Mr. Wilson, standing behind a bobsled prominently featuring the 2010 Winter Olympics logo, on the the back page of his campaign brochure. And, according to Renee Smith-Valade, communications vice-president for the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, that's a no-no. In a message left on our answering machine, Ms. Smith-Valade said, "We are aware of the use of the Vancouver 2010 emblem in Mr. Wilson's brochure. As soon as we were made aware of the brochure, we immediately spoke to Mr. Wilson's campaign manager who apologized for the use of our emblem. And he has - in fact - taken immediate steps to comply with our request to discontinue all use of the logo and destroy any remaining material that contains the logo. And we have every reason to believe they have complied and we have communicated that request formally in writing."
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Infringing on the world's most fiercely protected trademark is a campaign oversight of unbelievable proportions!
This revelation in addition to last week's surfacing of documents outlining Blair Wilsons business history has reinforced the core reasons for not voting Liberal.
While other parties and candidates campaign in the direction of election, the direction of Blair Wilson's campaign is to that of irrelevance and then oblivion.
This Blair Wilson's style seems to be to do whatever is expedient until he gets caught.
He appears to have perfected at the local level what the Liberals do at the national level.
This was a simple oversight, it's hardly common knowledge that the olympic emblem can't even be vaguely displayed. A big deal is being made about nothing. When asked to correct it, Mr.Wilson immediately did. Mr.Wilson has been extensively involved with vancouver 2010, and helped to organize the 2010 rally on robson. He's hardly one to infringe on the olympics, in fact he has high regard for the games.
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