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Liberal changes cost us all The McGuinty Liberals paid a Liberalfriendly ad firm more than $200,000 to redesign Ontario's trillium logo. For that money the Liberals were given something unrecognizable as a trillium, something more akin to poison ivy. It has been said that serious jurisdictions do not change their identifying marks. Certainly serious companies would never rebrand themselves in a manner that made them unrecognizable unless they were trying to put a big problem behind them. Perhaps what rankles more than the senseless change for senseless change's sake, more than the $200,000 paid to the same firm that created the infamous "I won't raise your taxes" ad with Mr. McGuinty during the last election, is the attitude they have regarding your tax dollars. If the McGuinty Liberals are spending money in this manner, if they have no qualms providing questionable projects to ad firms, especially in the wake of the federal Liberals' AdScam scandal, just what other projects have they commissioned? Well, apparently they have also commissioned a change from the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Commission (OLGC) to Ontario Lottery and Gaming (OLG) which seems pretty innocuous except it means all lottery terminals must get new signage. It also means all letterhead, business cards and other business paraphernalia must be changed. It has been estimated that the change which amounts to dropping the final "C" could cost more than $10 million. Ted Chudleigh