Is anyone else as turned off by the Bombardier “O, Canada – as sung by the Third World Taxi Driver Choir” ad (being shown during CBC Olympic coverage) as I am? The cut at the end to a black and white TV set showing Trudeau singing the anthem is just plain creepy.
(Couldn’t find video – if someone grabs it for Youtube, let me know.)
Update – video is here. And as mentioned in the comments, it wasn’t Trudeau on the tv, but a “generic Canadian athelete”. I shouldn’t let the subliminals get to me like that…
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. 😀
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.