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Oh, and now the New Democrats are merrily off spending another $100,000 of our money explaining why an Alberta government is essentially suing itself over power contracts. Try squeezing that into a 30-second TV spot. Maybe the guy doing those Brick ads for many a decade is free for the voice over.

So when it comes to spending our money on advertising, they’re equal opportunity glad handers. Using the guise of informing the hoi polloi about supposedly essential government business, they’ll chuck all sorts of vague garbage in there that, in reality, amounts to nothing more than a party political broadcast — except it’s the taxpayer who pays for this guff.

Yet, this is where it gets strangely interesting.

Suddenly, the Alberta NDP wants to limit advertising spending by political parties during an election campaign to the somewhat paltry sum of $1.6 million.

Gung-ho Calgary-Shaw MLA Graham Sucha has forwarded a motion to that effect, saying it’s about “getting big money out of politics.” You wonder what our boy Graham thinks about the lass on her roof watering the grass?

So here we have a party that wants to limit the amount outfits can spend of their own money, yet has no problem spending taxpayers’ dough — $5 million and counting — on ads that don’t impart any true information necessary to Albertans.

And, you may ask, what could such relevant information be?

How about an ad campaign to announce that no longer will you get a reminder in the mail that your vehicle registration is due. In a bid to save money, the government axed that. So, when the police officer pulled me over and gave me a $300 ticket because my plate was out of date, the question crossed both our minds.