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RSS FeedsHeather Mallick: A picture that tells the Tories´ story
(The Star Travel)

 
 

20 july 2018 23:46:01

 
Heather Mallick: A picture that tells the Tories´ story
(The Star Travel)
 


There is something of the night about this strange political ad, which features an image of a man crossing a bridge. What is happening here? Let’s look for clues.The man looks a bit grim. Who is he? Is that a MAGA cap? No, just a regular cap. Is he fishing? Why is he alone? Where is that bridge? Over what river? The river is ink-dark and the current runs fast. The bridge looks more like a long white diving board. Why does it have Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s face on it? The words “faith” and “diversity” can be seen on the bridge, bone-white compared to the dark-skinned man in dark clothing crossing the dark water to pass the dark fence to reach the distant green forest. I haven’t encountered a stunted, black, chain-link fence like this. They’re usually silver and snaggle-toothed, with a beige plastic Canadian Tire bag stuck in the mesh. The fence is black to emphasize the panel that has been torn away. The dark man didn’t do it because then he’d have had to go back for his large, wheeled suitcase. It must have been done by others. I wonder who. Ah, I see it is Andrew Scheer’s Conservative Party of Canada that made the ad, (since withdrawn, as presumably was planned) and ran the illustration beneath a big orange quote: “Trudeau’s holier-than-thou tweet causes migrant crisis — now he needs to fix what he started.” The dark man is walking over Trudeau’s 2017 tweet — “To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength. #WELCOME TO CANADA”— made after U.S. President Donald Trump had banned visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries. Sounds sensible to me. Let people claiming to live in terror and pain tell us their story. The ad appears to draw from a photo of Haitians leaving Champlain, N.Y. for the Canadian border at St-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec last summer. That s ...


 
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