Separated at Birth?

Noted over on the site of Toronto Star blogger Antonia Zerbisias, an uncanny resemblance between the Conservative Party of Canada web site and the US Republican National Committee web site.

Judge for yourself:

Republican National Committee

Conservative Party of Canada

Non-technical observations: Even if not a single line of code is similar between the two (and on the surface this does appear to be the case), the look and feel of the sites certainly is shared.

Free tip
To the media folks at CPC campaign HQ – the opposition is looking for any reason to tie the Conservative Party (and its leaders and influencers) to the generally disliked in Canada conservative party down south. If you are going to borrow ideas and graphic design from anyone, its probably not a sane idea to steal those ideas from the party of George W. Bush.

Its too bad the Conservative Party site designers didn’t follow the GOP site lead in one direction – the GOP site uses Flash but in a restricted fashion; those without flash can still use and benefit from the site, where its Canadian cousin is completely unusable unless you are able to use Macromedia Flash.

Update on the security kafuffle – ”ferret” over at Conservative Life issued an apology to me, which I sincerely accept.