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Adbusters aired an attack ad against Stephen Harper during an NHL playoff game on Monday — calling it the start of a “blowback campaign” against the prime minister.

In the ad, two swimmers emerge from a nondescript body of water covered in oil from a tanker spill.

“The Harper government has proclaimed all our beaches clear again,” an announcer says. If you look closely, there’s a ship sinking in the background.

Adbusters — the Vancouver-based magazine and media foundation credited with starting the Occupy Wall Street movement — raised roughly $35,000 through crowd-funding to pay for the CBC spot.

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People are supposed to hate political attack ads. They’re cheap. Superficial. They lower the “tone” of the debate, or so we’re told by people who likely aren’t familiar with the puerile attention-seeking that goes on during Question Period each day (bless their untainted hearts). Politics is serious business, one that is supposedly undermined by the glib distraction that is partisan advertising.