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Negative Clark Ad Misrepresents

From David Schreck's “Strategic Thoughts’

January, 2012 - The Liberals welcomed in the New Year by launching an attack ad against Adrian Dix. A similar stunt directed against BC Conservative leader John Cummins was followed by a jump in the polls for the Conservatives. It will be interesting to see what polls show after the latest ads run for a few weeks. Clark's newest negative ad makes selective use of statistics to misrepresent job growth, interprovincial migration, provincial taxes and NDP promises. In order to be effective, negative ads need to be rooted in some verifiable facts. Not only can nothing be verified in Clark's ads, but the claims can be shown to be false. They are reviewed and exposed here.