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Does Confederation Building have a familiar shade of blue?
If you’ve been driving by Confederation Building in St. John’s the last few months, you’ve no doubt noticed the scaffolding near large parts of the Newfoundland and Labrador government’s main complex.
Some of that $34-million refurbishment is now finished (read more about that work here), and the colour selection on the outside shows that the panels are changing from a shade of green to a shade of blue.
It’s the shade of blue that has raised a few eyebrows. “Tory blue,” according to at least one person of the Liberal persuasion.
In our newsroom, most people like the change, if only because the old colour scheme seemed, well, outdated.
As for the political influence? Well, we’ve seen things like budget documents and licence plates change from blue to red and back again over the years.
The change of colour on Confederation Building may be a coincidence, although we noticed that the different grades of blue in the photo above are, well, similar to the gradations on the 2009 budget documents, one of which is below:
