Family, Community, Unity and Awful, Awful Ads
I’m no great fan of the Conservative Party of Canada. I hope, then, that my evaluation of the CPC’s television ads isn’t biased by my political leanings. The CPC seems to be the first party out of the gate with TV ads. I’ve seen a couple this week on TSN. You can see them in the right hand panel of the CPC’s home page.
It’s harder to tell online, but they look and feel tremendously hokey. It’s like they got Stephen Harper’s cousin to shoot them in a basement in Etobicoke. Mr. Harper is hardly the most emotive of men, but in these ads he’s less expressive as permafrost. The actors seem to mirror his stiffness. Perhaps they’re all taking their cue from our current Prime Minister.
Simply put, they’re not of a professional calibre, and shouldn’t be running on national television. If I were working on the Harper campaign, I’d be a little ashamed that this was our best effort.
Chris 
