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Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson took to Twitter Wednesday to needle his Montreal counterpart for that city’s scrawny Christmas tree.
On Wednesday night Watson tweeted a photo of himself and city staff in front of a towering — and robust — Colorado spruce tree next to City Hall. The tweet was aimed at Montreal mayor Denis Coderre.
Denis – this is what a Christmas tree should look like! Return yours to Charlie Brown asap! @DenisCoderre pic.twitter.com/e7YcLQDg6Z
— Jim Watson (@JimWatsonOttawa) December 21, 2016
“Denis — this is what a Christmas tree should look like! Return yours to Charlie Brown asap!”
Watson was referring to the recent ribbing Coderre has received for his city’s Christmas tree in downtown Montreal’s Place des Festivals. The balsam fir stands at an impressive 26 metres. However, the branches of the tree appear limp and scrawny, and are adorned with kitschy Canadian Tire ornaments.
The idea was to celebrate the city’s upcoming 375th anniversary with a Christmas tree bigger and grander than the famed Norway spruce at Rockefeller Center in New York.
Instead, Montreal wound up with something only Charlie Brown could love.
The holiday evergreen was widely ridiculed on social media, and even by The New York Times, which called it “skinny, misshapen and widely unloved.”
if you thought montreal couldn't get any more embarrassing, this is the tree we have downtown to compete with ny's rockafeller centre tree pic.twitter.com/TrPFPyadDt
— cassandra c! (@hnsc_cass) December 3, 2016
Montreal's Christmas tree looks like it was just released from Xmas tree rehab and needs any spare change you might have for a bus ride home pic.twitter.com/DbcHdy28M6
— zak (@zaktebbal) December 6, 2016
“It’s a bit of an eyesore,” said Noor Malick, who has a view of the tree from her office window in Montreal.
“It’s horrible, it’s completely awful,” said Georges Malouin, who was passing through the open-air Christmas market where the tree is displayed. “I’m so surprised. I saw it on the Internet but now, live, it looks very — cheap.”
The tree has two mock Twitter accounts, one mainly in French and one in English. Mélanie Joly, the federal minister of Canadian heritage and a Montreal MP, tweeted that she loved the Montreal tree, but she added a winking emoji.
Je l'aime notre #Sapin
Marché de #Noël et Souk @sat #polcan #Montreal #sapingate #polcan pic.twitter.com/1D2cS5k3TD
— Mélanie Joly (@melaniejoly) December 4, 2016
With files from The New York Times and the Canadian Press
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On Wednesday night Watson tweeted a photo of himself and city staff in front of a towering — and robust — Colorado spruce tree next to City Hall. The tweet was aimed at Montreal mayor Denis Coderre.
Denis – this is what a Christmas tree should look like! Return yours to Charlie Brown asap! @DenisCoderre pic.twitter.com/e7YcLQDg6Z
— Jim Watson (@JimWatsonOttawa) December 21, 2016
“Denis — this is what a Christmas tree should look like! Return yours to Charlie Brown asap!”
Watson was referring to the recent ribbing Coderre has received for his city’s Christmas tree in downtown Montreal’s Place des Festivals. The balsam fir stands at an impressive 26 metres. However, the branches of the tree appear limp and scrawny, and are adorned with kitschy Canadian Tire ornaments.
The idea was to celebrate the city’s upcoming 375th anniversary with a Christmas tree bigger and grander than the famed Norway spruce at Rockefeller Center in New York.
Instead, Montreal wound up with something only Charlie Brown could love.
The holiday evergreen was widely ridiculed on social media, and even by The New York Times, which called it “skinny, misshapen and widely unloved.”
if you thought montreal couldn't get any more embarrassing, this is the tree we have downtown to compete with ny's rockafeller centre tree pic.twitter.com/TrPFPyadDt
— cassandra c! (@hnsc_cass) December 3, 2016
Montreal's Christmas tree looks like it was just released from Xmas tree rehab and needs any spare change you might have for a bus ride home pic.twitter.com/DbcHdy28M6
— zak (@zaktebbal) December 6, 2016
“It’s a bit of an eyesore,” said Noor Malick, who has a view of the tree from her office window in Montreal.
“It’s horrible, it’s completely awful,” said Georges Malouin, who was passing through the open-air Christmas market where the tree is displayed. “I’m so surprised. I saw it on the Internet but now, live, it looks very — cheap.”
The tree has two mock Twitter accounts, one mainly in French and one in English. Mélanie Joly, the federal minister of Canadian heritage and a Montreal MP, tweeted that she loved the Montreal tree, but she added a winking emoji.
Je l'aime notre #Sapin
— Mélanie Joly (@melaniejoly) December 4, 2016
With files from The New York Times and the Canadian Press
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