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The grass is always greener Beijing

From 21 to 24 February 2001, Beijing received the official visit of members of the Evaluation Commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to assess the nomination City Olympics of 2008.

She had made herself for the occasion, despite a late winter smog-making and cold weather. I still head the TV clips showing maintenance workers in the city busy sweeping the streets and especially in the aerosol paint the lawn of the city to give it a nice glow green. Whatever the season, regardless of the elements, the lawn will be green for the IOC visit!

Reporters and other foreign commentators have not failed to point this out. The treatment was sometimes comical (style, "They are crazy Chinese!"), Sometimes surly. Some did not hesitate to make it a metaphor for managing the government was doing in the situation of human rights and other things that supposedly trying to hide from the IOC.

short, a typical media treatment of its kind.

Meanwhile, several years earlier ...
There are a few weeks, I watched Everyone spoke to the CBC, the show dives into the archives of the state company for us to relive events in the history of Quebec. The episode in question was the 1967 World Exposition held in Montreal. And there is reported a rather comical, corroborated by the Centre d'histoire de Montréal.

The Expo Montreal was inaugurated in April. You know our cool spring temperatures, and know the greens more than timid in this time of year, you can guess what we did? I guessed:

"Peat Place des Nations, held the opening ceremonies, had not had time to green up in April of 1967 a little chilly. Then the young chief horticulturist, Pierre Bourque, had the idea to paint the lawn of a beautiful spring green for the opening ceremonies! *

Knowing the love of Pierre Bourque for China and good relations maintained there before As mayor of the city (from 1994 to 2001), one wonders if he has not revealed his personal stuff to the Chinese!


Simon Hobeila Montreal

* This quote is from this page Centre d'histoire de Montréal on Expo 67. We learn among other many tons of DDT were prevalent in the St. Lawrence to combat the proliferation of "manna" and that the City created the Office of Beautification Montreal to hide its slums. Like what the Olympics, the more things change the more they stay the same.