Conservative video pulled after hilarious gaffes
The Conservative party has pulled a promotional video showing, among other things: “a ‘Canadian dad’ … actually stock footage from North Dakota, … a clip of children attending class was shot in Serbia, the ‘Canadian-built’ homes were under construction in Slovenia, and a university student ‘late for class’ was filmed at a post-secondary institution in Ukraine. A scene in which a child walks with her grandparents was shot in London’s Richmond Park, and a family gathering where the group enjoy ‘a wonderful venison that was shot with totally legal Canadian firearms’ was filmed in Italy.” And there are more. Here’s the video, saved by someone else, and the thread on X that sparked the extensive debunking.
One scene showed a pair of fighter jets. A spokesperson for Canada’s defence minister identified them as Russian.
walkerp 23:20 on 2024-08-20 Permalink
And we want this guy to be our latex salesman.
dhomas 08:55 on 2024-08-21 Permalink
Ha! He was kinda caught with his pants down, now wasn’t he?
steph 09:08 on 2024-08-21 Permalink
Ignoring the poor sources of stock footage… what about this ad is “Conservative Party”? I imagine the identical ad for the Liberals, or the DNP – just change the party logo at the end.
Kate 10:45 on 2024-08-21 Permalink
I wonder whether any of the footage was actually from Canada.
jeather 11:01 on 2024-08-21 Permalink
It’s a remake of the Molson I am Canadian ad, more or less. (I watched the beginning only and got stuck on the kid being dropped off at school in a bus, then their father driving away. Continuity error!)
David 16:42 on 2024-08-21 Permalink
Don’t forget that the scene of the family in Italy drinking wine was supposed to be a celebration of a family member’s anniversary of their sobriety.
Annette 02:37 on 2024-08-22 Permalink
And looking proudly up at the sky through the tops of pine trees at Russian fighter jets. Wait! We were just driving through *endless fields of wheat* to our oil derrick repair job. Now we’re in the forest? wtf?
Blork 10:51 on 2024-08-22 Permalink
I think I spotted only one non-white person in the whole video. (There’s a non-white student in the university class.)
MarcG 10:56 on 2024-08-22 Permalink
I did the same exercise and was surprised by the diversity. First school kid getting off the bus, grade school kid on the left in the next scene, student and teacher in the next shot, 2 kids on the left in the next shot, etc.
Blork 11:41 on 2024-08-22 Permalink
MarcG you clearly did a more thorough analysis than I did. I admit I used the scrubber to go fast because I couldn’t bear to sit through the full three minutes in real time.