Heritage Canada has nine new Canada150 ads up on YouTube and some at least in regular
rotation on your screens. I dunno, I kinda liked this one.
But Andrew Coyne's quick review here:
I’d enjoy those Canada 150 ads more if a) they hadn’t snubbed George Brown and b) they weren’t so clearly part of the Tory re-elexn campaign
— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) October 19, 2014
Someone promptly responded that there is indeed a George Brown episode among 'em. Right. But it's pretty dire. "I was premier. Twice. [?] But I got tired of it, so I joined John A. Macdonald. Then I died."Update, October 24: James Muir, from History and Law at the University of Alberta, writes: "I agree, the Brown video is dour, but not much more than the others. They actually make for a decidedly uninteresting set of videos. A bunch of men standing on their own, not moving, lit from behind (usually) and describing themselves as if they are ghosts reflecting on their lives and deaths
Ugh."
