Following the very effective Conservative TV campaign depicting Stephane Dion as indecisive and “weak”, Liberals, including Dion himself and Michael Ignatieff, lined up to declare that negative political advertising is little more than a smear campaign and that “we would never do that”.
I recall thinking to myself at the time “Yeah, right!” This is the same Liberal party that ran two national election campaigns based on the premise that Stephen Harper and the Conservatives have a “hidden agenda” and that Canadians should be “very afraid”.
So it did not surprise me at all to see this:
Liberal attack ads would blast PM for income-trust decision
But according to Mr. Dion these new ads will not be “negative” “attack ads” (remember, he said he would never do that). Instead the new Liberal ads will be “contrast ads”.
What was Mr. Dion saying about having never gone back on his word?
