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That’s one way of looking at it. The other, preferable (in my opinion) way, is to crack open a beer and throw your head back in an erupting belly laugh, while succumbing to the hilarity of each earnest “Just Visiting” and “Soldiers with Guns” that marches across our screens. Stéphane Dion is not a leader. Ignatieff didn’t come back for you. You paid for Harper’s playoff ads.

How can anyone be upset? This stuff is gold.

True to form, the Conservatives are leading the pack heading into Election 2015 with a pair of new television ads that drum home the notion that Liberal leader Justin Trudeau is too inexperienced to be prime minister. Called “The Interview,” the ads show a carefully crafted panel that includes a senior, two women and a man with an accent you could cut with a knife, evaluating the would-be prime minister’s print resume.

“What does the experience section say about keeping us safe?” one of the women asks her colleagues, while at the same time holding his resume in her very hands. It’s all there, just look down, lady.

“Well, he wants to send winter jackets to Syria,” responds the other woman, piggybacking off a comment Trudeau said back in November.

“Like that will stop ISIS?” chimes in the indignant, heavily accented man. The Tories could have gone with a woman in a headscarf to fill this “diversity” role, but that might have been a step too far.