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Well now, this changes everything.
With all the media coverage, the Conservatives hardly need bother running these ads. Which means things went according to plan.
And… “Here’s the video clip of the CTV News from last night. Watch as they tell Canadians that it’s the Conservative GOVERNMENT who is buying ads against the Liberals’ Green Guru.”
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The bionic cat.
It’s been a long fight for Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro, and now a turn for the worse.
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  4. Sandi Rinaldo actually gave false and misleading info on national tv last night when she said ‘the Conservative government’ produced the ads. proudtobecandian.ca has the video.
    Does she not know the difference? sorry to say but I know too many ‘mainstream viewers’ who will now believe that their tax money is going toward CPC projects…’cuz Sandi said so!
    Hopefully Sandra Buckler noticed.

  5. The cons have said these ads are to counteract the “free ride” M. Dion has been getting in the MSM on the environment. “Free ride” is putting it mildly.
    A good idea since any enviro measure proposed by Harper will be instantly dismissed solely on the basis of who is proposing it.
    So the only thing one can do is to expose the incompetence and hypocrisy of your critics. It’s difficult to run ads criticizing the MSM or Greenie clergy like David Suzuki.
    But M. Dion does inhabit the same bubble and the spotlight of “so what are you gonna do about it Stephane?” will eventually shine on him.
    These ads will speed up the process.

  7. Nuke Time _ 5 minutes to go
    [You have to wonder about the sanity of Ahmadinejad and the Mullahs promising to wipe Israel from the map when there are 26,000 Nukes available to deter any such action. = TG]
    Victoria Samson is a research analyst for the Center for Defense Information, a non-partisan think tank in Washington, D.C., that focuses on military and security issues. http://www.cdi.org.
    Samson writes . . . **So it is rather jarring to be reminded that the United States and Russia still have 26,000 nuclear weapons between them. That North Korea’s recent arrival in the nuclear weapons club and Iran’s impending arrival have rendered international security even shakier than it was during the height of the Cold War.
    Finally, rubbing salt into the wound, we are reminded that tons of material that could be used to make even more nuclear weapons are dangerously under-secured. ** = V.S.
    http://www.petroleumworld.com/sati07012701.htm
    = TG

  9. How long does it take to get an advertising spot on the Super Bowl. What are the negotiations, and I know that 30 seconds can cost millions. These ads will run during the game in Canada. Must make liberals seeth to know the conservative party has that much extra money, and they gave all their stolen money out in paper bags. All that Harper has to do is tell the truth and let dion and his dream team help him. Video clips of Dryden saying they failed is priceless. Dion telling iggy he doesn’t know how hard it is to set and meet targets. Telling the truth is not an attack, aiming a gun and firing, soldiers and guns in the street, those are attack ads.
    Dion said the ads will backfire when questioned about them. Was Harper questioned re the guns in the street. Dion told a blatant lie today re Bush and Kyoto, and Andrew let him get away with it. Maybe he will be the next one to disappear from the screen. A few more complaints from the communication lady might do the trick. We need to e-mail her, instead of the crtc (or both) when we see these lies. Anyone know her e-mail address.
    Tomorrow question period should be interesting.

  11. I posted clips at YouTube of Kathy Shaidle’s appearance on Behind The Scenes.
    w3 youtube.com/watch?v=jw0izexl3mQ

  13. Doug,
    try going to canada.com — > national topics
    It’s still under Top Stories of the right hand side
    BTW: The link works for me.

  15. BBC has a story debunking the Stern Report
    “But expert critics of the review now claim that it overestimates the risk of severe global warming, and underestimates the cost of acting to stop it.”
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6295021.stm
    Also the Washington Post has a great article “5 Myths About Suburbia and Our Car-Happy Culture”
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/26/AR2007012601589_3.html
    When did the BBC and Washington Post start offering balanced coverage?

  16. If the elimination of the cwb means china will no longer be able to buy quality grain from Canada, why is that. Will farmers stop growing it, will grades go down, have they been artificially overgraded for years. No, what it means is they will have to pay fair market prices for grain they import. Yes, we have sold millions of tonnes of grain to china over the years, but how much of it was paid for by the chinese. Remember when the government loaned money to countries to buy our grain. Was any or all of it paid back, with interest. Those books need to be audited.
    And why is China turning to corn as a crop, any connection to ethanol or carbon credits.

  17. Kate, you really should have said how silly the video was – especially that bozo who announced that the conservatives are afraid of Dion. Just as the clip began, I had a drink of a very nice single malt. I hooted when that clown came on; I ALMOST coughed up the scotch.

  19. I think this whole ad thing is brilliant. Global has the broadcast of the game. We have cbc and ctv advertising the ads … the rags should have it tomorrow.
    I can’t see any downside of ads showing dions “dream team” debating him.

  20. Who wants to bet on whether Wartman was paraphrasing/glossing or not when he said china doesn’t want an “American-style open market.”
    I bet those were the exact words of the Chinese trade spokesmen. *rolls eyes*

  21. Who wants to bet on whether Wartman was paraphrasing/glossing or not when he said china doesn’t want an “American-style open market.”
    I bet those were the exact words of the Chinese trade spokesmen. *rolls eyes*

  22. You don’t just buy Superbowl advertising, they purchased it months ago, to bad the opposition parties weren’t smart enough. Desperation? No, just being smart.

  23. Watch as they tell Canadians that it’s the Conservative GOVERNMENT …
    Did you also notice that they referred to their poll about “Who do you think would do a better job of protecting the environment?” and mentioned the Green Party first! They weren’t even listed as an option. FYI – Conservatives were 1st by a 2X margin See: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/HTMLTemplate?&tf=ctv/generic/hubs/ctvNewsSub.html&cf=ctv/generic/hubs/ctvNews.cfg&id=50213&pollid=50213&save=_save&show_vote_always=no&poll=CTVNewsTopStories&hub=TopStories&subhub=VoteResult

  24. Planning for these ads, during the Super Bowl probably started last year right after the end of the 2006 game. The only question was, what would they be. It takes months to produce them, agree to them etc. You have to buy time the time months before so Global has known about them for ages. I would like to see all the ads that were prepared, we will most likely see them during the campaign. Dion with his foot in mouth ailment and the chosen leader made the cut. Wonder what the ones featuring Iggy and other candidates were like. Dion has been blindsided, along with cbc and ctv again. Does anyone doubt that Harper is ready, willing and waiting for an election. He is saying an election now would result in another minority. Planting the seed in voters mind to pay attention to what is being done, not what the media says. And, with it out about the ads, viewership will increase for Global, instead of watching on a US station. Dion is a football fan, will he watch, knowing millions of cdns will see him and his dream team attacking each other. Is that what the media means by attack ads, liberals attacking liberals. Love it.

  25. Planning for these ads, during the Super Bowl probably started last year right after the end of the 2006 game. The only question was, what would they be. It takes months to produce them, agree to them etc. You have to buy time the time months before so Global has known about them for ages. I would like to see all the ads that were prepared, we will most likely see them during the campaign. Dion with his foot in mouth ailment and the chosen leader made the cut. Wonder what the ones featuring Iggy and other candidates were like. Dion has been blindsided, along with cbc and ctv again. Does anyone doubt that Harper is ready, willing and waiting for an election. He is saying an election now would result in another minority. Planting the seed in voters mind to pay attention to what is being done, not what the media says. And, with it out about the ads, viewership will increase for Global, instead of watching on a US station. Dion is a football fan, will he watch, knowing millions of cdns will see him and his dream team attacking each other. Is that what the media means by attack ads, liberals attacking liberals. Love it.

  26. Planning for these ads, during the Super Bowl probably started last year right after the end of the 2006 game. The only question was, what would they be. It takes months to produce them, agree to them etc. You have to buy time the time months before so Global has known about them for ages. I would like to see all the ads that were prepared, we will most likely see them during the campaign. Dion with his foot in mouth ailment and the chosen leader made the cut. Wonder what the ones featuring Iggy and other candidates were like. Dion has been blindsided, along with cbc and ctv again. Does anyone doubt that Harper is ready, willing and waiting for an election. He is saying an election now would result in another minority. Planting the seed in voters mind to pay attention to what is being done, not what the media says. And, with it out about the ads, viewership will increase for Global, instead of watching on a US station. Dion is a football fan, will he watch, knowing millions of cdns will see him and his dream team attacking each other. Is that what the media means by attack ads, liberals attacking liberals. Love it.

  27. mary T.,
    Unless someone has a US satellite setup, it doesn’t matter what channel you watch the game on – it will be Global ads. We don’t get to see the US ads.
    It is much easier and cheaper to get a Global Super Bowl spot.

  28. When does the arrogance and duplicitousness of the MSM–in this case CTV–ever end?
    CTV and the CBC, as far as I can tell, are merely propaganda machines for the Liberal Party of Canada. I guess they’ve got too used to their perks and privileges, being cheerleaders for one of the most corrupt governments Canada has ever had.
    It’s scandalous that Canadians are being so ill-served by corrupt media outlets that seem to have lost the ability to tell facts from fiction.
    I’m now writing to the CTV to challenge their reporting: the CPC will pay for the ads NOT the Canadian GOVERNMENT. They know that, of course.

  30. Who was the Liberal Enviro Minister for the Librano$ at the time? Green-Greed Kyoto Dion….-
    Audit finds serious faults in $32.3-million climate program
    DEAN BEEBY
    Canadian Press
    OTTAWA — Natural Resources Canada has ordered a flurry of audits after its bureaucrats botched a multimillion-dollar climate-change program for the trucking industry.
    The program director has been fired, at least one grant agreement has been cancelled, and the department is revamping the way it hands out money for all its programs, says one newly released audit.
    The deeply troubled program is likely to provide more fodder for the Conservative government’s campaign to paint the Liberal record on the environment as an abject failure.
    “Management considers the findings of this audit to be very serious,” says one document obtained under the Access to Information Act.
    The audit uncovered serious faults in the $32.3-million Commercial Transportation Energy Efficiency and Fuels Initiative, or CTEEFI, announced by the former Liberal government in August 2003. (national newswatch)

  31. Iraqi cult leader killed in Najaf battle
    NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) – The leader of an Iraqi cult who claimed to be the Mahdi, a messiah-like figure in Islam, was killed in a battle on Sunday near Najaf with hundreds of his followers, Iraq’s national security minister said on Monday.
    Women and children who joined 600-700 of his “Soldiers of Heaven” on the outskirts of the Shi’ite holy city may be among the casualties, Shirwan al-Waeli told Reuters. All those people not killed were in detention, many of them wounded.
    Authorities were on alert on Monday as hundreds of thousands of Shi’ite Muslims massed in the area to commemorate Ashura, the highpoint of their religious calendar, amid fears of attacks by Sunni Arab insurgents linked to al Qaeda.
    But Sunday’s battle involved a group of a different sort.
    The final casualty toll, put by other Iraqi officials at 300 gunmen, was still being calculated, Waeli said, putting the initial figure at about 200. Searchers were still scouring the area where U.S. tanks, helicopters and jets reinforced Iraqi troops during some 24 hours of fighting.
    “He claimed to be the Mahdi,” Waeli said of the cult’s leader, adding that he had used the full name Mahdi bin Ali bin Ali bin Abi Taleb, claiming descent from the Prophet Mohammad.
    He was believed to be a 40-year-old from the nearby Shi’ite city of Diwaniya: “He was killed,” Waeli said.
    The group, which other Iraqi officials said included both Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims as well as foreigners, had planned an attack on the Shi’ite clerical establishment in Najaf on Monday, the climax of Ashura.
    “One of the signs of the coming of the Mahdi was to be the killing of the Ulema (hierarchy) in Najaf,” Waeli said. “This was a perverse claim. No sane person could believe it.” …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1775417/posts

  32. The Ads are making clever use of what the main players in the Librano leadership think of their own Party accomplishments. Dion looks incredibly silly in the exchange with Iggy.
    Yes BATB, we all need to write CTV on this one.
    This is the type of media reporting that can take down a country. It is the modus operandi of Banana Republics where there is no truth.
    What a pack of Ba****ds. GRRRRRRR!

  33. So, I read this story in the media about the ads and they end it with a hit-piece from some professor at the U of T.
    http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=63aae676-54c2-46e0-9ea5-f22ae27428b9&k=66842
    “The ads are risky, said Nelson Wiseman, a politics professor at the University of Toronto.
    “If you’ve got the NDP attacking Dion on the environment, it is more credible because the NDP has environmental credentials and the Conservatives don’t ,” he said. “So if you’re trying to move people [on the basis] of the environment — that’s probably not going to work. You could try to move people on the basis of: ‘You just can’t trust these guys’ but that’s what you ran the last election on.”
    So I’m thinking “how left is this guy” so I google him. I get this:
    http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/polsci/faculty_staff/ourfaculty/nelson_wiseman.htm
    Interests: Canadian government and politics. Recent publications: “Going Nowhere: Conservatism and the Conservative Party”, in M. Charlton and P. Barker, eds., Crosscurrents (2006); “Social Democracy in a Neo-Conservative Age: The Politics of Manitoba and Saskatchewan”
    The papers around here in London Ontario always quote Dr. Nesbitt-Larking who is a prof at Huron College UWO. I had this prof when I went to Huron. He was militantly left then and nothing has changed. He goes door-to-door canvassing for the NDP during elections. But he’s used as a media expert rather than a partisan activist by the press.
    These profs should look up the meaning of “CONFLICT OF INTEREST” and procure some ethics.

  34. My previous comment got caught in the filter.
    Check out the earlier Globe and Mail poll about the political importance of climate change. The poll looks like it was either manipulated by the editors or subject to an onslaught by an organized group. When I last checked (somewhere in the mid-30,000 range of respondents), the response “in the top 5” was the lowest percentage of all responses (12%, as I recall). Now it is by and far the largest percentage.
    And the response “not very important” previously had the highest percentage (40%, as I recall), while now it is quite low.
    I can’t imagine that this can adequately be explained by the random nature of honest polling.
    Not that I’m terribly worried about the validity of the poll, but it does indicate some form of manipulation…and manipulation in a way that is so blatant. Whomsoever is/are manipulating the polls isn’t/aren’t very bright.

  35. Ural: Guess I forgot that not everyone lives close to the border. My cable has 42 CHANNELS, including cbc, ctv, and global. When we were on the farm, our antenna brought in cbs, abc and nbc.
    Moving to the city meant we had to start paying for these. Still, it is a feather in Harpers hat to get time time during the game. Used to have friends down when games were blacked out in Calgary. And how much free publicity are they getting from ctv and cbc, in showing them all the time. Liberals attacking liberals, great.

  36. These aren’t Conservative attack ads. They are Liberals attacking Liberals. And given the Liberal penchant for wanting to be on TV all the time, I’m sure there are a lot more clips where that came from.
    The only problem with the ad is that the Conservatives shouldn’t have told the viewer what to think, ie. Stephane Dion is not a leader. That is self evident. They should have allowed the viewer to come to that conclusion on their own.
    Otherwise, the ad points out the obvious, Dion is a failure on the environment, why trust him again? If they keep the pressure on him, he’ll be forced to confront the truth of his failure, or change his platform. He can’t lie his way out of this one.
    One 30 second ad on Global during the superbowl is about $30 – 40k. The production wouldn’t have cost more than $10 -15k. The free Liberal media hype surrounding the ad will probably end up being worth around $200k. Heh.

  37. Or, as the old Mastercard campaign would have written it:
    Production of Conservative commercial – $10,000
    30 second one time buy on the Superbowl – $40,000
    Liberal news media running the spot for free – Priceless.

  38. Re: the attack ads, CBC News was indicating an upcoming bit on “attack ads in general” that I haven’t been able to catch yet.
    I suspect that this is their way of deflecting the impact of the attack ads by claiming that “all sides do it and its reprehensible”. I’m willing to bet that they will go into specifics on the Conservative ads but gloss over any previous attack ads from the Liberals.
    Typical…and obvious. They’re so transparent its silly.

  39. Our TV Ads
    http://www.conservative.ca/EN/4579#
    …-
    The three ads are now posted on the Tory Web site.
    They’re intention is not to throw a whole lot of facts and policy at people. There’s only so much you can do with a 30-second spot. Instead, the ads are clearly meant to instill in Canadians an image of Stéphane Dion that they have yet to see through the media. The Stéphane Dion the Tories want you to see is someone: …-
    via secondthotsblogspot

  40. Over 300 comments re the ads in the g&m. Newman talking liberals and reporters on them. Still calling the ads attack ads. They are, liberals attacking liberals, from their own mouths. GTA voters can’t handle the truth. One commentator even brought up that Harper had to confer with Dion re the nation thing. Dion finally had to recant that stmt, but the lie stuck in lib minds. Harper has to get the truth out there. Now, when the campaign starts, does that mean liberals, being outraged by these ads will not run negative ads. I doubt it. The up side is that we now have the cbc and ctv bringing up that the ads attack the liberal record, and Susan Bonar just said, the liberals had 13 years and did nothing. What is really getting them is that as there is no campaign on, the cost will not be included in campaign costs. Some wonder who did the ads, american or cdn firms, and if american further proof of cozing up to the US. Who brought in the leader of the democratic party as main speaker at their convention. Some are saying Harpers plan, of seeming to fear Dion the most, worked and the quebec liberals elected him. Wonder what the french ads say. Will Dion explode when questioned about them.

  41. My goodness……..Sandy’s body language says it all.
    The hatred is easly seen. Just unbelievable!!!

  42. RE:Sandy’s body language,
    is it the shaking head, the naunce of the voice,the liberal red shirt, the Stephane Dion button in her lapel?

  43. ‘I’m so sick of running’
    Canada says no to U.S. deserter
    By PATRICK MALONEY, FREE PRESS REPORTER
    London Free Press
    Mon, January 29, 2007
    Matt Lowell is one of the unlucky 13. That’s how many U.S. soldiers have bolted their homeland in protest of the Iraq war and applied for refugee protection in Canada, Ottawa says. So far, all the claims have been rejected. Lowell, a quiet Michigan native who arrived in London by accident, just received the Immigration and Refugee Board’s decision on his case. …
    During the first of three times he went AWOL from his duty station in Fort Lewis, Wash.
    […]
    Oh, boo-hoo-hoo – save it for your up-coming Trial ya whining traitorous yellow bastard !!!
    BTW, sorry about the vile London Free Press’ typical apppallingly leftist slant but, hey, figured folks would like hearing this ‘sad’ news & it’s not as if similar commie ‘journalism’ is unknown Stateside, eh?
    (… although, even by the LFP’s all too familiar low standards, the article’s author must have pictures of his editor with a goat to get away with the ‘included advertisement’ crap above ???)
    Anyway, bottom line UNDER CANADA’S NEW CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT:
    “So far, all the claims have been rejected. ” !!!
    …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1775524/posts

  45. We’re not afraid of Stephane Dion. We are just afraid that Canadians are not getting the truth about him and the Liberals. We are afraid that Canadians have not yet realized how stupid they are to keep voting Liberal. Yes, absolutely Stupid. With a capital S.

  46. Go over and read Ezra Levant in todays Calgary Sun and you will see why these ads are out now. Big liberal supporter, Jim Patterson, is head of the organization that vents all tv ads, and last year refused to allow conservative ads to counter the “guns in our street”
    The cbc and ctv and global have to give permission for any of their footage to be used in an ad, and cbc denied permission and laid a complaint last campaign. And we wondered why some conservative ads were so blah. The liberals and the networks refuse to allow ads showing the truth, during a campaign. Harper has done an end run with these ads and caught all the culprits in the headlights.
    As for body language and hate, notice how Susan Bohnar has aged this past year. Notice how dion has a habit of licking his lips, very lightly, when asked a question he isn’t expecting or doesn’t want to answer.
    Bloggers, utube and the net will counter all the dirty tricks by the liberals to keep the truth from the voters. I thanked the cbc for giving all the attention, for free, to the ads showing liberals attacking liberals. Watch question period today and Newman. I suppose the msm and liberals will try to blame Harper for the tarsands problem.

  48. Just an aside on the ads, take note of the exchange between ‘Iggy’ and ‘Steffie’. The true mark of a Liberal statesman is ‘Steffie’s’ whine “That’s not fair”. This is what the MSM would have as the next leader of this country, it is so tragic that it is criminal.

  50. Susan Bohnar actually said, these ads showing liberals attacking liberals, then showing dions response that is posted on their web site.
    She also said they attack dion and liberals for not doing anything for 13 years. Oh, the ads are working, regardless of dion, newman, boag, and others saying they will backfire.

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