I'm tired of this Canadian Conservative lament.
It can't be that difficult to convince a nation that the neighbor to the south that has saved its bacon all the way throughout its existence deserves some support.
If you can't control your utterly ungrateful radical bunch, don't expect us to want to make nicey-nice.
We (Canadian Conservatives) are doing everything that we can to try and change the government in this country. Keep in mind that we are against not only the liberal party (who throw money at the nanny-state voters by the billions), but also the far-left NDP, the seperatist BQ and the Green Party. That's 1 right-wing party that is only 2 years old against 4 far-left socialist parties and we are still leading nationwide in the polls.
The reason the ads were produced and run anyway is they are desperately trying to hang onto their uber-leftwing strongholds in the urban areas, especially Vancouver and Toronto. In other words, they think that at this point their best-case scenario is a 1984-style meltdown when Brian Mulroney reduced them to 40 seats.
What they're afraid of is the Tories break through in Atlantic Canada and swallow up most of the federalist vote in Quebec, win practically everything everywhere else save a few seats for the NDP, and leave the Liberals in the same shape the Conservatives were in after 1993 when they went from 169 seats - to 2! The Liberals will probably not go that low but these ads aren't so much a hail-mary pass as a last-ditch defense.