It turns out, with all the fuss in the media, those cartoonish oil drops won’t even be scaring anyone at the pumps. The company refused to play those ads due to their political nature. Unlike some of the pundits out there, I actually don’t think Conservatives pulled off a free media stunt like this on purpose but the end results are pretty incredible. Tons of free media, both on TV and in the papers. They got ahead and defined Dion’s open ended policy announcement on tax shifting. They also got Dion on the defensive, while he is taking his time to put together the actual platform. Its all just one big game of politics and Conservatives pulled off a huge bluff, winning 3 imaginary political play points, I am sure they are celebrating somewhere at Chucky Cheese. 

It has come down to this, our government party releasing cartoons to play tricks and make fun of the leader of opposition as if they were in a school yard. It goes back and forth while Canadians tune it all out, not realizing that in between all the immature political posturing, controversial bills get passed without opposition, like the new immigration bill. I think Ottawa has gone the way of Washington where it is completely out of touch with Canadians struggling with economic slowdown, jobs, tuition fees, gas prices, pollution, etc. It took Americans 8 years to finally find an inspirational leader like Barack Obama that they can get behind to make a clean start with a different type of politics, lets hope Canadians won’t have to wait that long.