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The Doug Ford government is redesigning the Ontario Trillium logo at a cost of $89,000.

The current image was controversial when unveiled by the Dalton McGuinty government in 2006, partly because it replaced a decades-old version and also because it looked like three men relaxing in a hot tub.

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“A new Ontario logo will be included on Ontario’s license plates as part of a wider refresh of how Ontario license plates are produced,” a provincial government source said Thursday.

The government intends to enter into a new commercial agreement to produce high definition licence plates that it says won’t peel and last longer than those produced now.

The newly-designed plates will be a manufactured to a North American standard size at what the government promises will be no cost to taxpayers.

“In fact, by modernizing Ontario’s license plate and how it is made, Ontario taxpayers will save millions of dollars each year,” the source said.

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“The work associated with the logo redesign amounted to $89,000, which is less than half of what the Liberals spent on the previous logo, and a mere fraction of the savings taxpayers will receive from our wider plate modernization process.”

The Ford government is already considering replacing “Yours to Discover” with “Open for Business” on commercial plates.

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