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How do you feel about Ontario's political ads (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 month ago by to c/askacanadian@lemmy.ca
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You know the ones.. telling us how they're investing in this and that and the other. How Ontario is improving and thriving.

I'll leave my opinion aside to reduce bias, but hey, my comment history is public.

Much love!

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[–] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It's weird. Gov't ads are a comm channel that can and should be used to inform people what the gov't does. At the same time these ads are not representative of what the gov't does. So it's the same shit when the libs used ads to boost themselves as the cons do now. It's not great.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I agree with all of your points. If it keeps happening no matter the party and no matter the reality, then it's nothing short of a systemic problem.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    My problem and why I'm not jumping straight against the ads themselves is that ads or not, these governments rarely represent us. I've been here since 2005 and while the OLP gov'ts have done some material contributions for us, it's always been tinker round the edges, bare minimum shit. The PC gov'ts being actively harmful. So I see the ads issue as a minor symptom that I don't focus on. I need the gov't to represents working people, not corpos - in other words the vast majority, not the minority at the top.

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