The Federal Tories are trying to spotlight overdose deaths using the City of Brandon as the example.
The Conservative Party of Canada released the ad last week claiming that Canada has become a “drug manufacturing hot spot”.
The Brandon Sun says the ad released on X — the nearly six-minute video uses 30 seconds of visuals from the city of Brandon to drive home a point about the number of people who have died from fentanyl overdoses since 2016, the year that the Trudeau Liberals came to power.
“Recognize this place? This is Brandon, Manitoba. Population, just over 50,000. A small, beautiful city like many others that dot the Canadian landscape,” says Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in an audio voiceover at the start of the video, while images of Brandon streets and the McKenzie Seeds building are shown. The visuals then move on to a crowd picture from inside the Keystone Arena during a Brandon Wheat Kings game.
“Close to eight out of 10 of those overdose deaths involve fentanyl. It wasn’t like this before the Liberals radically liberalized drugs.”
Brandon Mayor Jeff Fawcett noted the ad is “highly political,” saying the party could have used any city in the country and it would have had the same impact, as far too many communities in Canada — including Brandon — have been affected by overdose deaths.
