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Thats strange because in the last election the Liberal's dedicated most of thier advertising budget to baseless attack ads while Paul Martin talked about secret agenda's and the Conservatives dangerous relationship with neocons.
I guess the Libs knew that they were destined to become the not so loyal oppossition and were getting a jump on the game plan right?
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Your memory is selective. Around half-way through the campaign,
neither party had run any attack ads. On December 30, 2005, the Conservatives fired a pre-emptive salvo with an ad ("They'll go neg") accusing the Liberals of having to resort to negative attack ads before the Liberals had, in fact, done so.
It's ridiculous that some of you are holding up the CPC to be paragons of positive campaigning using only their own platform and vision for the country when the very basis of their electioneering in 2004 and 2006 was to attack the Liberals on accountability and scandals. I'm not saying it wasn't without some merit, but it was a far cry from sunshine and flowers coming from the CPC camp in the last few elections. I understand that people support their party, but let's try to keep some perspective.