In a stunning move this week, Jack Layton, slammed the government over a leaked memo that revealed the government’s interest in cutting the number of environmental impact reviews it conducts. The leader of the New Democrat Party, “Uncle” Jack Layton, said it spoke of the government sacrificing the environment for the economy. Perhaps even more stunning was Layton’s suggestion that the opposite of a green economic recovery was a “brown” one.

Until now, political leaders in Canada have traditionally abstained from weighing in on opposite-colour contraversies. The last time it had happened was in 1967 when Lester B Pearson suggested the opposite of burgundy was magenta; a move which grew widespread protest from members of the PWFCIM (People Who’s Favourite Colour Is Magenta) who claimed Pearson’s assertion was reckless and inaccurate. That was a different time however, and Layton’s modern-day assertion is drawing its share of supporters, as well as speculation that “brown” may actually enter the books as the colour of anything un-eco friendly. This comes much to the dismay of the PWFCIB (People Who’s Favourite Colour Is Brown), who lament that the colour brown has been through enough denigration already, having previously been stigmatized as the colour of ‘poop’.

“Now what?” Said a member of PWFCIB when told of the Layton smearing. “Why doesn’t someone pick on another colour- like orange. What the f@#% is that colour about? Like, is it named after the fruit, or is the fruit named after it? Hey Orange: MAKE UP YOUR MIND!”.

Layton’s coloured remarks are just the latest in a long line of opposite political claims he has made- last year Layton bizarrely claimed that it was ‘he’ and not Stephen Harper who would be the next prime minister of Canada; he also famously once gaffed that the opposite of a mustache was not a clean shaven upper lip, but was in fact, a ‘soulpatch’.

How this latest opposite-colour contraversy will affect the NDP (or PDN), is anyone’s guess…

from Montreal, Erik Anderson reporting.

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