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Now I’m starting to think the Conservative Party graphic design shop is just trolling me, so inept is the party’s use of stock photography to illustrate Canadian policy announcements with images that are actually of foreign people, places and things.

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Thus far in the campaign, the Tories have used:

Additionally, a party video promoting the Halifax ship-building industry used footage of a bridge between Prescott, Ontario and New York State.

And now, to end the week, the Conservatives published a picture of a lake in Oregon — that’s a northwestern state in the United States of America — to highlight Friday’s policy plug, to “protect Canada’s natural environment, promote economic development, and stand up for law-abiding firearms owners.”