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Something worth reading in the @OttawaCitizen. A very rare event. @kathleen_wynne blows millions on vanity ads. END Her Reign of Error.
Ottawa Citizen Verified account @OttawaCitizen The curse of the ‘vanity ad’: Canada’s multi-million dollar addiction to taxpayer-funded partisan ads http://ow.ly/vhoA308C7L4
Canadians, we like to smugly remind ourselves, are generally free from the crushing yoke of U.S.-style campaign spending.
Last year, a single Pennsylvania Senate race racked up $150 million CDN in partisan spending. In Canada, meanwhile, we pulled off our last federal election for only $100 million.
But Canada is home to its own uniquely annoying ad phenomenon: The “vanity ad.”
Known to any Canadians with a T.V. or internet connection, these are taxpayer-funded ads that serve no other purpose other than to assure Canadians that the incumbent government is doing a good job.
And in Canada, these types of ads are truly a non-partisan exercise.
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