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While a substantive criticism of this might focus on the importance of Canada to any legitimate international peace‑seeking organization, I prefer to focus on the comedy of its logo: an escutcheon charged with a globe both centered on Florida and dominated by Canada.
Not only does the logo manage to exclude nearly every nation the organization claims to represent, it does so with the confidence of a child who’s never looked at a map but insists he could draw one from memory. It ignores 90% of the world’s population in favor of North America and, specifically, a swampy peninsula best known for humidity and headlines.
Canada, meanwhile, becomes the largest visible landmass, as if the designer briefly forgot what the planet looks like and just hit “enhance” on the nearest polite landform. Blown up to kaiju proportions, Canada dominates the shield like it’s about to apologize for stepping on the rest of the hemisphere.
It’s the first logo in history to accidentally imply that world peace depends entirely on Toronto.
