The Song is called Oh Canada, not Oh Kanada. It is sung in either English or French, or both. Those renditions are merely multi-cultural plagiarism wrapped in lefty feel good politically correct nonsense.

If the ad has Trudeau in it you can bet that it isn't being played in Quebec where the man is hated by all of the French (left, right, or center.)

This just makes me despise the rotten corporate welfare-sponging Liberal rent-seekers even more.

Yeah, it pi**es me off too.

It's a little too cute and I want to know what the Hell Bombadier is doing advertising at the Olympics, seeing as they were just bailed out to the tune of hundred$ of million$ of dollar$ by the Canadian taxpayer.

The optics stink.

I absolutely loathe this ad, and at the same time find myself asking why or whom Bombardier is advertising to in the first place. As a plane, train and subway car manufacturer, who in the Canadian TV audience is going to be buying these products?

Their recreational products would seem a more lucrative bet to spend the big advertising budget on.

Maybe the intent is to show what a big player Bombardier is to the rest of Canada so that no one complains when another multi-billion dollar interest-free loan is floated their way. The Federal Government has to get out of the corporate welfare business, or at least stop giving preferential treatment to Quebec.

A little off topic there, but yeah, this amalgamation of Canadians of convenience singing their Lotto 6/49 happy dance victory music is completely nauseating. Maybe they could show a governent official handing them the keys to their rent-controlled residence twenty minutes after arriving on our doorstep. A little reality TV for those of us who are fed up with our open border policy.

A shot of Maher Arar or the Khadr clan would be a great addition to this ad as well.

A video of the commercial can be found here:

http://www.olympic-commercials.com/bombardier-anthem/

I'm not sure which I find more irritating, the Bombardier commercial or the Air Canada commercials feature very depressing looking employees ramble on about how unimportant they are.

Recreation products is a different company.

When ever I see Trudeau being promoted as patriotic, I think of the HoC exchange between Erik Nielsen and Pierre Trudeau.

Erik, (paraphrase) "I will stack my war record up against yours anyday".

[Erik Nielsen's life as a politician is the stuff legend, except most of it is true. The young lawyer came to the Yukon in 1952, and he brought with him a distinguished war record. As a pilot in the RCAF during World War II, he flew 23 missions with a Lancaster bomber squadron. Then, as a commissioned pilot/officer, he flew 33 bombing missions over Europe, including the epic D-Day invasion in 1944. Nielsen was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross]

Meanwhile, Trudeau road around on a motorcycle while wearing a nazi helmet ?

And WK thinks Kate is the nazi lover !!??

Connect the dots; Trudeau - Charter of wrongs - LPC - Power Corp - oil for food - Human Rights Commission - Total Oil - Saddam - United Nations - Maurice Strong - Chretien - China - Sidewinder - adscam

Result ? A crumpled up map of Canada in a waste basket.

Yeah, it pi**es me off too.

It's a little too cute and I want to know what the He** Bombadier is doing advertising at the Olympics, seeing as they were just bailed out to the tune of hundred$ of million$ of dollar$ by the Canadian taxpayer.

The optics stink.

That's not Trudeau on the black-and-white TV at the end -- it's a generic athlete on the podium after winning a medal.

Nevertheless, the commercial is, indeed, rather creepy.

Ron....

That map of Canada is getting steamed. :D

The Liberal wrinkles are going to disappear.

Ron in Kelowna,

The helmet Trudeau wore was a WWI-era German helmet, not a nazi one. There are more than enough factual reasons to loathe Trudeau; we don't need fake ones.

The Air Canada commercials are the worst. Completely morose narration about their role in getting the athletes to China. If it were reality TV, the Air Canada employees would sound surly as well.

If I was an Olympic athlete who had to fly Air Canada, I'd ship any important equipment ahead via FedEx.

How soon we forget. the old anthem was written in 1867, and served us for almost a century.

Oh Canada is a piece of Liberal propaganda from the mid 1960's. It's imposition on the country was part of the Liberal campaign to strip us of our history, especially anything to do with our British heritage. It is unhistorical, and deliberately devoid of rational content. It is no accident as well that the Liberal governments that destroyed our military, gave us an anthem that, also quite deliberately, cannot be marched to.

http://www.louisbourg.ca/music/themapleleafforever.mp3

I have been finding myself changing the channel every time this crappy commercial comes on. Turns me off, big time. One of the corniest I've ever seen. Future Liberal voters?

What elements of the commercial make it creepy? The fact that foreigners (gasp) on their own turf are singing the Canadian national anthem out of tune?

While I found many of Trudeau's policies absolutely unpalatable, he didn't restrain the flair of his personality. I loved his insouiance.
He had more colour than the bloated bland glands that preceded or followed him.

BTW, am I the only individual on this thread to post my full name, thereby taking full frontal ownership of my words?

Yes it reminds me of precisely ADSCAM and "Little or no work" for our stolen tax dollars.

I'm waiting to see my cousin in one of those commercials. He and his Newcastle United supporters stumbling out of the pub in Sunderland, puking on bobbies, pissing against walls, signing O Canada!

screw Bombardier - their creepy ads make me wish I was living in Texas

"No definitions were found for insouiance."

Did you mean "insurance"

terrible ads . . . make me wanna puke every time they are on.

Bombardier is lining up for a giant suck at the taxpayer teat so they can build the "C Series" aircraft they have just committed to.

Since they are in Quebec, the veiled threat is always throw money at us or it will fan the flames of the Separatists.

I'd pry their lips off the teat and throw gasoline on their bitching and moaning.

"thereby taking full frontal ownership of my words"
Wally Keeler

" ..while literally millions of Canadians were directly involved in the fight against Adolph Hitler, Trudeau, a 22-year-old wealthy dilettante, was riding around Montreal on his motorcycle wearing a Nazi helmet." Claire Hoy

http://www.citizen.on.ca/news/2007/0913/columns/022.html

Kathryn - Many WWII soldiers in Germany and in Canada wore WWI helmets and uniforms (especially at the beginning of the war, do you remember 'army surplus'?)- including the Brownshirts who supported Hitler. We are dancing on the head of pins here.
Turdo liked the Socialist/Fascist/Bolshevik IDEAS of the Hitler lovers (including Stalin who signed a alliance treaty with Hitler before Hitler invaded the USSR)

Everything ron in kelowna said about Eric Nielson is true. Eric fought for Liberty in WWII and DEFENDED Liberty in the House of Commons when he was leader of the opposition. Eric could shred Turdo in two sentences. Turdo was a happy man when Eric lost his job - it was a sad, sad day for us though.

Even worse, the Power Corp tainted Malrony gov't back stabbed Eric and all of us in the west. Eric was not defeated by voters in the Yukon; he quit because he could not work for the Power Corp PC outfit.

A great book to read is:"This House is not a Home" written by Mr. Nielson after he quit politics

"Gave $328 million to Bombardier ... and all we got was a crappy ad"

"I shouldn't let the subliminals get to me like that..."

Got to me too, sorry. Strange though - how, why they would choose such a 'close resemblance' shot.

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If I was an Olympic athlete who had to fly Air Canada, I'd ship any important equipment ahead via FedEx.
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Apparently you don't plan on competing if that's your back up plan!

No problem kiddies....TSN and ESPN will take all the viewers from Commie Canada. They have the rights to the original HOC theme. And they weren't afraid to pay the minimun rights for it!
"Save the country.Stomp a leftie!!"

Watch this antem and maybe you will feel better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irZmknvOB4I

Speaking of Trudeau, did you read the credits? Look at Client Services...just saying.

People who produce ads like that are not generally stupid or ignorant of history. You can be pretty sure that the obvious undertones are very deliberate.

But .... At least it's not Bobby Gimby being recycled.

It's amazing what the Liberals ignored when in Office that then become so damned urgent when the Conservatives took power from them.

They were in power when Arar was apparently "tortured" in his homeland Syria and did squat and they also ignored Kid Khadr. Strangely they ignored a British-Canadian, William Sampson,who was truly badly treated and tortured as well. It wasn't something they cared to deal with.

Another little detail they had no intention of dealing with was Kyoto, that is, beyond sending carbon credits with our had earned tax dollars off to places like China.

Moe Strong, the granddaddy of Kyoto was only concerned with bleeding money from Industrialized nations, to fund the big polluters to line the pockets of the usual subjects.

We have to shut them up at every opportunity, Jason Kenney has made a good start.

Being an old Trudeauphobe, seeing him on tape singing anything other than the Internationale would be quite a treat, however I strongly doubt that any such tape exists. I've read various stories about the motorcycle helmet as being from either war or more simply as just "a German army helmet". It is a matter of semantics, the fact remains that the wealthy intellectual Trudeau took a pass while his peers served their country fighting a tyranny he had a lot of sympathy for. Naturally, Trudeau didn't notice the irony of his stagecraft in calling out the army during the October "crisis" even though he personally declined to serve in it at a time of real crisis. Typical drug store fascist.

Of course Bombardier would show a bunch of foreign nationals singing the Canadian anthem. That's where Bombardier spends all their government grant dollars to hire people. It certainly isn't in Canada.

I think I vaguely recall a commentator during the opening ceremonies saying something like "the rest of the world sees Canada as their home team" or something to that effect. Did I catch that right? If so, it seems to me that most people already have a home team. Hell, half of Toronto doesn't even regard Canada as their home team.

Where do all these people get the idea that everyone loves us? In my experience, people in Europe and the US think of Canada as nice, bland place they don't know much about. Sort of the way most of us think about Norway or something. It seems like it has some nice scenery and I'm sure you might meet some pleasant nationals if you were to visit, but I don't walk around humming its national anthem. If someone were to tell me they came from there it might be an interesting biographical note, but it wouldn't give me the thrill so many Canadians seem to imagine they inspire in foreigners when they tell them where they're from.

this ad which is indirectly funded by cdn taxpayers by the hundreds of millions the bomb has been given via grants, interest-free norepayment schedule loans and near giveaway sales prices of other manufacturers - are directed at the vast majority of cdns who are not aware of the above. The bomb is trying to wrap itself in the cdn flag so as to soften public opinion in advance of another sweetheart grant/loan to fund the next money losing airframe.

Can you imagine the reaction in the us if Boeing tried to pull a similar stunt?

I think that this commercial is trying to say that Canada is well respected, by the average joe, all around the world.

I've actually been just about everywhere (except Africa) and it is kind of true that people hold Canada in high regard. If you hang out in these places and do the local cultural thing, they will eventually know that you are not American - they might not know where you are from - but they know you are not American - strange.

This commercial might also be meant to appeal to many countries and peoples to basically get the Bombardier name across. Even though Bombardier sells RJ's all over the world and have been pretty successfull, many people don't know it's Bombardier and that's its Canadian.

@ ural said:

"Gave $328 million to Bombardier ... "

It's not a gift. It's repayable financing (like a bond). All industries that use this type of financing must repay the loans.

Bombardier has evolved into a company without heart, soul or leadership - like the Liberal Party of Canada.
Just my opinion, after experiencing the Company from the inside.

"they will eventually know that you are not American"

[sarcasm]I guess that's the important thing.[/sarcasm]

All you folks watch CBC? Why?

I locked out all CBC/CTV channels ages ago.

I liked it. The idea that people all over the world would hear our anthem when we got gold at the Olympics and would find the tune catchy was quite clever and very patriotic.
Go to Quebec and see how little obvious Canadian patriotism there is in that part of the country. With all these Olympic ads, it's good to see a Quebec-based corporation praising the Canadian anthem. Don't forget that just over a week ago, the separatists were angry that the Quebec athletes couldn't wave their blittle blue flags.

JJ Joseph:
"It's repayable financing (like a bond)"

Are you saying that Bombardier has never received grant money from the government, usually in the form of a bail-out?

I liked it. The idea that people all over the world would hear our anthem when we got gold at the Olympics and would find the tune catchy was quite clever and very patriotic.
Go to Quebec and see how little obvious Canadian patriotism there is in that part of the country. With all these Olympic ads, it's good to see a Quebec-based corporation praising the Canadian anthem. Don't forget that just over a week ago, the separatists were angry that the Quebec athletes couldn't wave their little blue flags.

Ural qrote:
"Gave $328 million to Bombardier ... and all we got was a crappy ad"

Well Ural, you also get the Bombardier that sells it's Kanadian-made snowmobiles for MUCH less in the US than in Kanada!! And further; Bombardier SPECIFICALLY refused to let Kanadians purchase for cheaper at American dealers in the US and bring them back to Kanada...while AT THE SAME TIME hosing the those very same Kanadian taxpayers up the asshole for redLiberal corporate welfare pried out of the wallets of hard working average Kanadians!
Absolute enemies of the Canadian people, one and all.

Mark Bourrie at 4:58, I aggree with everything you said - it's just too bad that it is associated with THAT Quebec-based corporation.

DonW - nail on head !!

That commercial represents the future of Canada: Various Third Worlders butchering our anthem in a cacaphony of foreign tongues. Funny that the only white person shown was on a grainy, black and white TV--representing the past.

Two awful commercials. One a Multi-cult bag of nonsense, with an indistinguishable theme and unrecognizable song.

The other, like listening to Radiohead while chewing aluminum wrap. Thanks for reminding why I will never choose to fly Air Canada.

I'm loving Crouton and Mo's attempts to revive their personas while the Olympics are on. Don't worry, when this is over, they will sink back into oblivion, or onto COSCO's board. Mo's legal problems make Conrad's look like an in-school suspension.

Jason Kenney has impressed these last few years. I look forward to an expanded role for him in the forthcoming majority.

Wally: Josef Stalin, Pol Pot, Adolf Hitler, and Vladimir Lenin were all sooo dreamy too with such flamboyant personalities.

Bite my big one, you bourgeois armchair revolutionary.

Guys, I thought it was kind of cute. No need to get bent about this at all.

Bourrie, I agree with you as well. Twits here just can't get their heads around some darkies singing our song.

But seriously... wtf are you doing reading this sitem, let alone commenting on it?

For that matter, wtf am I doing here? I feel dumber by the second. Better leave now to restock.

The fact that Chretien is showing his silly, smart-ass attempt at wit, (no wisdom), while the Olympics are on in China, where he and his cohorts like Mo Strong and Demerais have business interests, is just too, too obvious.
If the Olympic Games were anywhere else but Chinois we'd hear nothing about Harper not attending, case closed.

STFU Chretien, your a spent force.

Ron in Kelowna,

Your Claire Hoy link only recounts the story. I can find links that tell the same story but with a WWI helmet. There aren't any links to anything factual or better yet, a dated photo.

However, this came up elsewhere a while ago and one comment posted made sense - this apparently happened early in WWII, so early that no soldiers had returned home, with or without souvenirs. If true, it couldn't have been a nazi helmet.

dear "kathryn",
The helmet that Trudeau was photographed wearing was not the WW1 version with the big spike in the center but the one used in the last years of WW1 and all the years of WW2...the one with earlobe- protective angled steel..the one we're all familiar with.
WW1 or WW2.. irrelevant.
National Socialist Party of Germany = N.A.Z.I.
"SOCIALIST" being the word of import... and all their apologists.

It's the Air Canada ads that drive me batty.

Is it humble to claim how wonderful you are as a company because you are so humble?

From one of the ads:
"It feels like the opening ceremonies around here, although we're just a bunch of regular joes serving the wonderful athletes so in no way does it feel like the opening ceremonies around here, I would never be so bold as to claim that it feels like the opening ceremonies around here yet we have done a wonderful job bringing the athletes to China so it feels like the opening ceremonies around here."

For reasons that should be obvious, Bombardier has an interest in wrapping itself in the flag. The immorality of these fat cats getting rich off of the extorted dollars of ordinary Canadians is clear enough. It is the hypocricy, though, I think that gets you. Can you picture CBC execs reacting to being approached for this add by a consortium of companies working in the Athabasca oilsands?

"Oh Canada is a piece of Liberal propaganda from the mid 1960's. It's imposition on the country was part of the Liberal campaign to strip us of our history..."

That's just wrong. It didn't become the official anthem until 1980, but the music and French words date back to 1880, the English lyrics to 1908. And the French words are wonderfully politically incorrect and couldn't be more at odds with the vacuous multi-culti self-image that the Liberal Party has tried to instill in the country. It's a wonder they haven't been vandalized.

O Canada! Land of our forefathers
Thy brow is wreathed with a glorious garland of flowers.
As in thy arm ready to wield the sword,
So also is it ready to carry the cross.
Thy history is an epic of the most brilliant exploits.
Thy valour steeped in faith
Will protect our homes and our rights
Will protect our homes and our rights.

Swords, crosses, valour, faith, rights? This sounds like the anthem of a Christianist theocracy. (Andrew Sullivan, get your smelling salts.)

What a ridiculous piece of advertising! Who in the 'H-E-double toothpicks' could possibly imagine that any foreign national, going about their daily business, would be singing Oh Canada????

I say we let all those people in the advertisement keep "Oh,Canada" (in whatever language they wish) and we can revert to singing the real national anthem, "The Maple Leaf Forever."

I'm way passed pissed off with this one. From the first time I saw the ad I could feel my blood pressure rising. Talk about a lunatic-inspired piece of faux-nationalistic tripe!

Oh Canada - sigh.

Hmmm. Even my teen daughter can't stand to watch that commercial; she said it makes her cringe.

Before reading any of the posts -- Kate, aren't all Canadians generic? Ha....

Hey, I like the ad!! Very well done and quite diverse...

Doesn't anyone at Air Canada or Bombardier vet these ads before they air? Seems to me that several layers of "management" at both of these companies should be fired.

Lefty: "... can't get their heads around some da**ies singing our song"

Funny how Lefty is the only one using a pejorative term for non-whites.

As for the ads, the one that annoys me the most is the badly-scripted-and-acted one for Bell about the kid leaving the laptop in the bathroom.

JJ Joseph says “It's not a gift. It's repayable financing (like a bond). All industries that use this type of financing must repay the loans.”

I beg to differ. Your implication is false. There is no MUST in the repayment requirement. Please consult http://ito.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/ito-oti.nsf/en/h_00162e.html

The relevant section reads:

“Q2. How is a "conditionally repayable contribution" different from a loan?
Repayments to the TPC program are not based on a fixed period of time and an interest rate. Repayment terms were negotiated on a case-by-case basis to reflect the unique nature of each company, its project and risk level. Repayment plans took the form of one of the following: royalties based on gross company revenues, product or divisional sales, or in some instances fixed repayments or warrants. The actual repayments received reflect the level of commercial success that the technology and company eventually attain.”

You may consult http://www.taxpayer.com/main/news.php?news_id=2471 for repayment rate details. In a nutshell, only about 7% of the “financing” is repayed.

It think that advertising is just brilliant!! It certainly sold me. I just went out on Monday and bought a Challenger 300 and followed up yesterday with the purchase of a Bombardier Monorail to ferry me from my humble abode to the airport.

And while bombardier was receiving all those liberal funded bailouts, the liberals forbid them to developer, manufacture or service anything to do with weapons or weapons systems.

JJ Joseph - "It's not a gift. It's repayable financing (like a bond). All industries that use this type of financing must repay the loans."

Really? ... I thought that was the 1.7B the got from us. I know, it's hard to keep track of the the taxpayer dollars going to them. I would have preferred the T-shirt instead of the ad though.

An ad, that I didn't have to fund, that pissed me off the most was a McDonalds one. A kid that wants to be a mascot? Suppose there is little competition there ... a Canadian value.

Kate, I surprised you don't recongnize the citizenship test when you see it. If you can hum the tune for a few bars you are in. Immigration officials are roaming the world, camcorder in hand, to find future citizens.

Hey, if you were receiving welfare payments while living in your country of origin, you'd be singing O, Canada too.

This Bombardier ad plays to that that bizarrely narcissistic nationalism that's peculiar to Canada, where we think that all the countries of the world are infatuated with us because we're so quietly humble. And it drives me up the wall!

I rather like the ad myself.

Get over it, Kate.

Kathryn is right about the Trudeau helmet. It was a WWI helmet, nothing Nazi about it. Trudeau was never photographed wearing it, so any photo Don claims to have seen would be a fake.

You guys are absolutely nuts.

Just thought you should know - you DO know the rest of us can read this, right? Shouldn't you keep the conspiracy theories and intolerance discussions private so the rest of us can retain some faith in humanity?

ebt; you don't have a clue as to what you are talking about.
I have seen this photo as have many others over the age of say 40? and it is has been in books and newspaper articles for decades...100% for sure!
I say again...The helmet that Trudeau was photographed wearing was not the classic WW1 version with the big spike in the center but the one used in the last years of WW1 and all the years of WW2...the one with earlobe- protective angled steel..the one we're all familiar with.
For sure.
WW1 or WW2 helmet.. irrelevant.
National Socialist Party of Germany = N.A.Z.I.
"SOCIALIST" being the word of import... Trudeau was a socialist and so are all of his apologists and revisionists.

The Maple Leaf Forever

http://www.louisbourg.ca/music/themapleleafforever.mp3

Posted by: Murray the Hun at August 20, 2008 3:15 PM

Hey Murray,

Was that Stan Rogers singing that particular version?

Does anyone else know?

Chris