OTTAWA – Federal Liberals are dipping into their party war chest to advertise about government advertising.
The party has paid for prime-time NHL playoff real estate to lampoon the Conservative government’s ubiquitous “economic action plan” promos that have been saturating the airwaves since 2009.
WATCH THE LIBERAL AD BELOW:
Opposition parties have long complained that the government ads are thinly disguised partisan propaganda – paid for by taxpayers.
The cheeky Liberal ad purports to be a message from Prime Minister Stephen Harper, thanking Canadians for footing the bill.
It claims taxpayers have forked out $750 million over the past nine years to pay for government commercials – a figure that includes all government of Canada advertising, including standard public service announcements as well as the more debatable ads that burnish the Conservative government agenda.
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The Liberal party is paying – it won’t say how much – to run its ad during the hockey playoffs and on social media.
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