The Liberal Party of Canada has launched a new series of ads, attacking Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper's decision to prorogue Parliament until March 3.
The Opposition party released two English-language ads and one French-language ad on the internet Sunday and will be running them in newspapers and on television and radio Monday.
One of the ads says Harper's announcement on Dec. 30 that the Governor General had agreed to suspend Parliament was "his holiday gift to himself."
The ad says the prime minister went ahead with prorogation to avoid answering questions about climate change, unemployment and reports alleging the abuse of Afghan detainees.
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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/01/10/liberal-party-ads.htmlHarper has 'something to hide,' Liberal ads say
Jane Taber
Stephen Harper has “something to hide” and that’s the reason he’s shutting down Parliament, Michael Ignatieff’s Liberals charge in a new series of radio and print ads launched today.
Calling the move his “holiday gift to himself,” the Liberal ads suggest the Prime Minister acted in secret during the holidays by proroguing Parliament to avoid controversy around tricky issues such as the Afghan detainee story, the economy and the environment.
“While Canadians were busy getting ready for New Year’s Eve, Stephen Harper was busy, too,” says the deep male voice on one of the three radio ads (there is a French-language ad and two English ads).
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For example, a Facebook page was recently set up by Alberta university student Christopher White to protest the shut down. More than 135,000 people have joined the site, surpassing the response to a similar campaign launched by Conservative activists in response to the coalition last year.
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