I’m no great fan of the Conservative Party of Canada. I hope, then, that my evaluation of the CPC’s television ads isn’t biased by my political leanings. The CPC seems to be the first party out of the gate with TV ads. I’ve seen a couple this week on TSN. You can see them in the right hand panel of the CPC’s home page.
It’s harder to tell online, but they look and feel tremendously hokey. It’s like they got Stephen Harper’s cousin to shoot them in a basement in Etobicoke. Mr. Harper is hardly the most emotive of men, but in these ads he’s less expressive as permafrost. The actors seem to mirror his stiffness. Perhaps they’re all taking their cue from our current Prime Minister.
Simply put, they’re not of a professional calibre, and shouldn’t be running on national television. If I were working on the Harper campaign, I’d be a little ashamed that this was our best effort.
DarrenBarefoot.com 
The quality of the ads reminded me of infomercials. That doesn’t make me want to let Stephen Harper run our country.
It seems like the party just didn’t learn from the atrocious ads they ran earlier this year, with Harper and assorted Tory MPs having round table “discussions” about various issues that came off as incredibly scripted and lacking in any sincerity. These ads have almost exactly the same feel to them. They need to fire their marketing agency, pronto.
The infomercial style one where they’re pretending to be on a news program, and he promises to get rid of house arrest, etc… he looks like he’s wearing a set of wax lips.
I think Harper is an android.
The one they did specifically for Quebec (Débloquez votre voix) is pretty good.
The others that I’ve seen (I agree) are pretty sucky.
MS