Green Shift Inc. claims to have received "...numerous angry and threatening calls and emails ..."

... from people who mistakenly assumed there was an association between the plaintiff and the Liberal Party, or their environmental tax program."

I can’t help but wonder - still -  whether these calls "angry and threatening calls" just happened to start around the same time that word began to spread through conservative-leaning channels of the Canadian blogosphere that there was, in fact, another "Green Shift" out there; one that found the Liberals’ apparent imitation far from flattering? Perhaps it’s time to revisit the ITQ Online Outrage Tracker, which has the full timeline of a controversy that went from zero to headline news in just one day.

I just find it difficult to come up with a plausible scenario in which an ordinary, non-politically motivated person looking for more information on the Liberals’ Green Shift would be so outraged by a domain name collision that they would take the time to email, fax and even call up the company in question, just to lambaste the owners over a supposed "association" with the Liberal Party -- especially after the squabble between the competing Green Shift-ers went public. I mean, when Jim Flaherty christened the 2007 budget "Aspire Canada" did it result in a flood of furious phonecalls to the company behind the Aspire credit card?  More and more, it seems as though Ms. Wright has unwittingly allowed her company - and herself - to be hijacked by those with a purely political purpose - which, ironically, may eventually damage her reputation far more than any supposed link to a party platform.

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