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Old 09-08-2015, 09:05 PM   #1481
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Originally Posted by Jacks View Post
It's not getting much media coverage but after the Cons were mostly blamed for the dead child it turns out that Fin Donnelly wasn't being entirely truthful when he said the family had been rejected and he had brought the file to the minister's attention. In truth he had brought attention to the other brother and that application was rejected for being incomplete.

I'll give credit to Barton for pressing him on the issue even though she was pretty nice about it.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/fin-...tion-1.3218648
The reason the CPC is getting killed on that issue is not specifically that child though. It is their misguided insistence that the refugee issue there is caused by ISIS (it is driven by Assad), and their refusal to alter their policy in light of this being a more global issue.

Part of the issue is 'bad luck' where they were making fun of Trudeau wanting to provide aid and support the refugees. They have attack ads on that topic! Now that it's a hot button issue with pictures of dead children on the newspaper though, those ads are adding fuel to the fire.

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Originally Posted by c.t.ner View Post
Wow. Just wow.

The only good thing about this ad from a Conservative standpoint is that they have a couple days to pull it and 6 weeks for people to forget about it.

This is a horrible ad.
The CPC will try to change course. I wouldn't doubt that they will be having some discussion behind closed doors on how to right the ship now. For political junkies this could be awesome because desperate times call for desperate measures. These are the kinds of times that give us the Jean Chretien 'face' ad or the Paul Martin 'tanks in our street' ad. I can hardly wait to see the over the top ridiculousness we could be treated to by a rich flailing CPC.
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