After all the hoopla this week surrounding the Conservatives’ Justin Trudeau attack ads, the Public Service Alliance of Canada has joined the fray with a video of their own.

While the Conservatives opted for levity, however, the 180,000-member union went straight for the throat.

“The True Nature of Stephen Harper” begins with a woman reading peacefully on a couch — presumably in her living room. The camera slowly zooms in on her face as she reaches for a glass of water.

Then there’s a sudden crash, and two individuals wearing black suits, gloves, jackboots and gas masks barge into her house. Ominous music kicks in as they proceed to drop a dark, bitumen-like substance into her fish bowl, kill one of her plants and drop a cigar into her glass of water.

Then they leave, and these lines appear on the screen: “$180 million less for environmental protection. The Harper government’s cuts and invitation to plunder our natural resources. Get informed. Notothecuts.ca, Public Service Alliance of Canada.”

This comes just over a week after PSAC launched an interactive website that allowed anonymous users to write their own captions for photos of the prime minister.

After some users posted offensive comments, PSAC pulled down the website and apologized.