Last year I placed a verbose note written on duct tape on the mailbox for the apartment I’m in asking for no unsolicited advertisements. A mysterious helpful neighbour peeled it off and replaced it with a generic “no flyers please” sticker to match the others.

So I was surprised to receive this dithered, laser printed advertisement courtesy of James Lunney, an MP from British Columbia?! I crumpled it in disgust and left it among other rejected advertisements.

A compatriot with roommates couldn’t pass it along without some additions that amuse me. Sure, drawing horns on Stephen Harper doesn’t make any difference, but adding to “Nobody is above the law” with “except for agents of the state” is cute!

What’s with the bizarre mail-in-your-ballot conceit? Are they planning to use this to pat themselves on the back for how many people agree with them? The “check one” arrow pointing toward Harper is a nice touch.

The copy uses sentence constructions even more awkward than my own! They make the oh-so-common conflation of “flaunt” for “flout”, an error that really inflames my prescriptivism! Centring text like that just looks ridiculous, no?

What is this Lunney character doing sending politicial ads in my riding? james_nicoll received one too. Garth Turner has some posts suggesting it’s a violation of election rules and also discusses its “culture of fear”ness.

I very much doubt a “tough on youth crime” policy does much to deter it.