Liberal leadership hopeful Mark Carney has been caught red-handed using a campaign logo that bears a striking resemblance to a trademarked emblem owned by a Canadian debt collection company.
Here’s the scoop: MetCredit, a well-known Canadian collection agency, has a logo featuring a bold, red capitalized “M”with a maple leaf at its center—an unmistakable national symbol.
The similarities were so obvious that MetCredit’s owner, Brian Summerfelt, publicly called out Carney’s campaign on social media, sarcastically admiring its “beautiful logo.”
MetCredit has held the trademark since June 2022. But now, Mark Carney’s Liberal leadership campaign has unveiled an eerily similar design.
“My logo is a registered trademark. The one created for your campaign is too close for comfort. Please cease using it. Thank you,” reads an email from Summerfelt to the Carney campaign.
Sure, there are slight design differences, but let’s call a spade a spade—it’s too close for comfort.
Summerfelt didn’t mince words. He made it clear that Carney’s team did not have permission to use the design.
“Too close for comfort,” he said—and you can bet your bottom dollar he’s right.
Social media is roasting Carney over the blunder. Ordinary Canadians and notable figures like Alberta MP Michelle Rempel Garner and Hampstead Mayor Jeremy Levi have joined the criticism, calling out Carney for the embarrassing misstep just one day after his campaign launch in Edmonton, Alberta.
As The Counter Signal reported, Carney called the cops on the outlet’s editor-in-chief Keean Bexte after he dared to show up and question the World Economic Forum acolyte on being photographed with convicted child sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell.
Carney doesn’t want to answer tough questions from independent media about his elite connections, and now he’s refusing to admit that he may have ripped off a logo from a successful business.
If Carney can’t even come up with an original logo, how can he be trusted to bring innovation to policy-making?
And what’s Carney’s response to all this? Crickets.
His campaign has remained completely silent—a silence that speaks volumes about their respect for intellectual property and, frankly, for Canadian businesses.
