[MTLskyline]

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Gail Shea, minister of Transportation and Public Works, holds an example of the new P.E.I. licence plate for vehicles. Guardian photo by Nigel Armstrong

Licence plate goes green

WAYNE THIBODEAU
The Guardian

Anne is out and Canada’s ‘green’ province is in.

Transportation and Public Works Minister Gail Shea introduced Prince Edward Island’s new licence plate Wednesday.

The new plate features an artist’s sketch of P.E.I.’s red-soiled cliffs with a series of wind turbines blowing in the wind above. That image is located to the left of the plate.

The word Prince Edward Island, at the top of the plate, matches the colours found in the cliffs.

The slogan on the bottom of the plate is Canada’s Green Province.

The plate also has a website, www.peiplay.com, displayed below the slogan. That website is meant to boost the Island’s tourism sector.

The new plates are now available at a cost of $5.

Shea believes the slogan, Canada’s Green Province, shows where the province is now in terms of green energy initiatives.

The province has also announced that anybody who still has the old green and white licence plates or those with the Anne of Green Gables plates will have to replace those plates by the end of the year.

The existing plates, featuring Province House and the Confederation Bridge, will still be permitted.

[bluenoser]

Wow, taking out Anne of Green Gables and the Confederation Bridge; that's a bold move.

I recently was traveling through Texas and for some people I met, Anne of Green Gables (and thus PEI) was the only thing that they knew about our entire country. As scary as that is, I don't think PEI should leave Anne out of its advertisement (which is what license plate slogans are supposed to be for a province).

[alps]

Looks alright, it's a nice slogan.

Not sure why they say "Anne is out" at the top of the article, Anne has been "out" ever since the late 1990s, when they stopped using that plate.

[steve81]

A wind turbine? A website URL to promote tourism? Is that what PEI is all about? I don't like this plate. It's just plain ugly.

First of all, all plates should bear the same slogan. They should stop changing it all the times:
http://www.canplates.com/pei.html

They could have a picture of PEI with the bridge and the nature instead. "Canada's Green Province" is a nice slogan, especially considering Nova Scotia's slogan (Canada's Ocean Playground). But they should show the nature instead, not an ugly mechanical wind turbine. A picture of the bridge would be more appropriate as it is unique. A wind turbine is not.

[Haliguy]

Why does it seem like PEI is always coming out with new Licence Plates.

[SSLL]

I like it. Very colourful!

[Keith P.]

A wind turbine? A website URL to promote tourism? Is that what PEI is all about? I don't like this plate. It's just plain ugly.

First of all, all plates should bear the same slogan. They should stop changing it all the times:
http://www.canplates.com/pei.html

They could have a picture of PEI with the bridge and the nature instead. "Canada's Green Province" is a nice slogan, especially considering Nova Scotia's slogan (Canada's Ocean Playground). But they should show the nature instead, not an ugly mechanical wind turbine. A picture of the bridge would be more appropriate as it is unique. A wind turbine is not.

I agree totaly. Wind turbines are nothing special these days. Would they put a picture of a coal-fired power plant on NS plates? Of course not. The bridge and Anne of Green Gables and the red dirt and the beaches are what people from away remember about PEI. Not wind turbines.

[Haliguy]

I agree totaly. Wind turbines are nothing special these days. Would they put a picture of a coal-fired power plant on NS plates? Of course not. The bridge and Anne of Green Gables and the red dirt and the beaches are what people from away remember about PEI. Not wind turbines.

True there's wind turbines everywhere. Its not unique to PEI.

[MTLskyline]

Perhaps they should have made their new license plate the red-dirt colour.

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[Canasian]

Newfoundland got new plates this week too....

[MTLskyline]

Newfoundland got new plates this week too....

Here we go..

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Hue of blue on new licence plates
Last Updated: Tuesday, April 3, 2007 | 7:42 AM NT
CBC News

The prominent appearance of a Tory shade of blue on Newfoundland and Labrador's new licence plates has nothing to do with politics, a government minister says.

"We had various focus groups across the province that helped in regards to identifying the font, design and the colour of the new brand," said Business Minister Kevin O'Brien.

A new licence plate design was unveiled Monday by the Newfoundland and Labrador government. A new licence plate design was unveiled Monday by the Newfoundland and Labrador government.
(CBC)

"This was the more acceptable, in all."

The new plates feature the same logo — including a stylized pitcher plant — unveiled last year as part of what the provincial government called its new brand.

The outgoing plates happened to feature a shade of red not unlike the hue used by the Liberals, whom the Tories defeated in 2003.

Drivers are not required to replace plates on existing vehicles.
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As of this week, newly sold vehicles will feature the new plates.

"We would like to get our existing plates out of that stock first," said Government Services Minister Dianne Whalen, whose department oversees vehicle registration.

New plates can be bought at a cost of $20 each.

[steve81]

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I love it. That's how a plate should look like. Take note PEI.

It's called the KISS principle. Keep It Simple, Stupid.

[SJTOKO]

What a peice of garbage! That shade of green is soooooooooo 1993....:yuck:

[kirjtc2]

I don't like that new NL logo on the plates. Looks like something from the 70s.

While I agree that PEI's plate is too "busy", there is such a thing as being too simple: see New Brunswick.

[steve81]

I see what you mean. The NB conservation plates with a fish are looking better, you got to pay an extra to get them though. I would have preferred they used that plate as a standard plate, but I do understand they are making them to raise money for parks and wildlife.

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I prefer the NL plate here versus the actual NB standard plate because the logo is bigger. I do understand your concerns about the logo though.

[mattropolis]

Why are all licence plates white nowadays? It's so boring!!!

[steve81]

Probably because it's easier to read them.