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These “PACs,” these “Third Party Advertisers,” have an unparalleled grasp of Soundcloud, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. The whole Internet is at their disposal. They are providing the very best, most persuasive content that a consumer-level Macbook and $129 worth of editing software can buy.

These people were not to be underestimated.

They were, after all, the very same troupe who spearheaded the Boycott Tims phenomenon. Somwhere, in Fort McMurray, a franchisee owner by the name of Tim McDuggen is out tens, maybe hundreds of dollars. Probably. We grieve for him. But he is the sad, inevitable casualty of the doughnut chain’s wholesale abandonment of our crucial oil and gas industry.

It’s been a heck of a week! Here’s an update on HarperPAC. pic.twitter.com/V0GgxiHmVZ — Stephen Taylor (@stephen_taylor) June 26, 2015

And HarperPAC isn’t alone. There are handfuls of other third parties eager to sway you, dear Canadian voter, with their compelling, well-thought out ploys: Engage Canada, and that other one, Working Something Something.

But HarperPAC was the worst of them. It’s a PAC that is not a PAC, because we don’t have PACs — or Political Action Committees — in Canada. They have PACS in America though. And America is so opposed to useful regulations, so free, that they’re barely democratic at all. Therefore, we must cut this nefarious outgrowth from the south from our political system, stem and root.

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That’s not our culture. Canada is a country of polite and civil political commentary. We need a return to the gentlemanly days of yore, when men were men, and political parties made their own attack ads. The world could only improve if we stuck to making fun of Prime Ministers for the speech impediments caused by a childhood case of Bell’s Palsy, for example. Or claiming hidden agendas; that our leaders will flood the streets with soldiers. In Canada. Or perhaps just pointing out that the Liberals keep on choosing gormless leaders.

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