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PCs, Liberals square off with dueling Super Bowl ads

The Ontario PCs and Liberals will be going head-to-head with duelling campaign ads during Super Bowl Sunday. 

The parties are running two ads each during the Canadian broadcast of the NFL championship game Sunday night, which typically has the biggest TV audience and most expensive advertising time slots of the year. 

One of the Liberals’ spots will be a recently released 30 second ads focused on PC Leader Doug Ford’s hot-mic moment where he revealed he was happy President Donald Trump had won the most recent U.S. election — that is, until Trump “pulled the knife out” and threatened Canada with punishing tariffs, a spokesperson for the party said. 

An Ontario PC spokesperson said the party is running two “positive” ads: a new, 60 second spot as well as a 30-second ad that’s already been circulating that argues Ford is the best choice to “protect Ontario” from the economic uncertainty posed by Trump’s threatened tariffs.

The Ontario NDP also have a new ad out featuring the party’s leader Marit Stiles that’s a mix of policy and attack, though it won’t be airing during that prime Super Bowl time slot.

CBC News has reached out to the NDP and Green Party of Ontario for comment on the PC and Liberals’ Super Bowl ads.

Crombie and her party have been in the PCs crosshairs in at least two recent ads, one of which accused the Liberals of opposing policies aimed at “making life more affordable in our province.” 

 

Weeks before the election began, both parties rolled out a series of ads taking shots at each others’ leaders.

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