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Robyn Urback: Conservatives’ crotchety anti-pot attack ads have reached the point of embarrassment * 1
    #20364146 - 08/02/14 10:20 AM (9 years, 6 months ago)

Robyn Urback: Conservatives’ crotchety anti-pot attack ads have reached the point of embarrassment

Robyn Urback | August 1, 2014 | Last Updated: Aug 1 11:21 AM ET
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A photograph of a flyer sent out by MP Julian Fantino that landed in Vaughan mailboxes this week.


The Liberal Party of Canada is likely basking in the glow of the Conservatives’ miscalculated attack ad campaign, which has had the effect of making the Tories look more out of touch than the “Reefer Madness” message they were originally trying to convey. This campaign — of radio ads, television commercials and more recently, print flyers — attempts to sell the idea that Liberal leader Justin Trudeau has no problem with teens smoking pot. According to Tory literature, Trudeau thinks a big fat doobie goes great with a glass of chocolate milk. Better grab your smelling salts now, parents, before I go on.

Residents of the Scarborough-Agincourt riding became privy to “Trudeau’s Pot Plan,” as it was dubbed, thanks to a collection of flyers sent out by the Tory camp during the federal byelection this past June. The flyers featured a superimposed Justin Trudeau smiling in the direction of a teen lighting a joint, along with a caption that read, “Trudeau wants marijuana in local stores, just like alcohol and cigarettes.” Indeed, that’s true. For the past year, Trudeau’s position on marijuana has been one of outright legalization, which would mean the stuff would actually have to be sold somewhere. We are to infer, however — from these flyers, at least — that those sales would mean easier access to marijuana for kids. Kids.
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Conservative MP Julian Fantino took that suggestion further with his new collection of flyers, which suggest “Justin Trudeau will make harmful drugs more accessible in Vaughan”, i.e. Fantino’s riding.

    “The Liberals WANT to make buying marijuana a normal, everyday activity for young Canadians,” according to the flyer, emphasis included. “Our Conservative Government wants to STOP kids from using marijuana.”

Here, the campaign veers from crotchety grumbling to bald-faced lie. Certainly legalization would make marijuana more ubiquitous, and perhaps one could make the case that ubiquity improves accessibility (debatable, but still), but Fantino actually suggest the Liberals want children to buy marijuana with the same nonchalance with which they might buy a pack of gum. As if Trudeau, for some reason, is intent on getting kids to light up a spliff. I can only imagine how Mr. Fantino must see Liberal photo ops:

    Tween spectator: “Oh, wow, Justin Trudeau! Hiya, Mr. Trudeau, sir. Can I take a picture with you?”

    Trudeau: “Now, now, Jimmy. Have you smoked that fatty yet? You go fire it up, son, and then we’ll talk.”

This method of attacking Trudeau for the “sake of the children” is a hackneyed appeal to prudish sensibilities, and a misguided one at that. According to a national poll commissioned by the Department of Justice and released this week, more than two thirds of Canadians want to see marijuana laws softened; 37% of respondents were in favour of outright legalization and 34% of respondents supported the decriminalization of small amounts of marijuana. That would seem to suggest that the Tories’ pearl-clutching attack ads are meeting a receptive audience less than a third of the time, and even then, only resonating among those who would actually swallow such ludicrous suggestions as at the ones printed in Fantino’s flyers.

The Tories are even losing audience among those who uphold the status quo. Last August, delegates from the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police held their annual meeting in Winnipeg and passed a resolution suggesting police be given the option to ticket for possession of small amounts of marijuana. Though the association did and does not support legalization, it maintained that the criminalization of marijuana places an unnecessary burden on the court system and police resources. That in mind, former Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Fantino may want to pay heed to the advice of his former colleagues. Indeed, there are few surer ways to come off as out of touch than to have the police tell you to loosen up.

Beyond futile, the Conservatives’ constant fear-mongering over Trudeau’s position on legalization is an embarrassing show outdated lack of awareness. And yet, it endures still. Bedrock Tories may continue to believe Trudeau actively wants kids hooked on pot, but others  will be rightfully red-faced by such a shameless, tacky appeal to emotion. There’s better fuel with which the Tories can attack the opposition. This isn’t it.

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Robyn Urback • rurback@nationalpost.com |

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/08/01/robyn-urback-conservatives-crotchety-anti-pot-attack-ads-have-reached-the-point-of-embarrassment/


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Re: Robyn Urback: Conservatives’ crotchety anti-pot attack ads have reached the point of embarrassment [Re: Simplepowa]
    #20365779 - 08/02/14 05:19 PM (9 years, 6 months ago)

Good post. Another fear and smear campaign.


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