LottoMax TV Commercial Update

A few weeks ago, I submitted a complaint to Advertising Standards Canada regarding the commercial in which the driver of a speedboat and a person in a helicopter are texting each other while playing hide and seek.

While fully realizing the advertisement is far-fetched and fantastical, I do not support or condone the unsafe behavior. It is a slap in the face and a disregard of the new law enacted to stop the use of mobile devices while operating motor vehicles.

I received a reply from the OLG explaining their stance on the advertisement the relevant part of the letter follows. At this time I still feel the ad is at the least poor judgement and potentially goes against clause #10 as described below:

McGuinty Gets Scared

This tidbit comes from our esteemed premier;

"When it comes to our 23 biggest agencies, boards and commissions, that they follow the same rules we in government follow," he said. "Their expenses must be approved separately and independently by the integrity commissioner." Source: thestar.com

Yes, that sounds all well and good, but considering the way the media (and rightly so) has been following the e-health fiasco, McSquinty must be shitting in his pretty tailored suit. So now he has swept the deck at the OLG, but lets get real. The OLG has obviously been mismanged for quite sometime, and furthermore the premier has been in power for six years... and just now he's realizing that his cronies are mis-spending public funds! What a shocker! This jerk needs to find a new job. I certainly won't be voting for him in the future and I hope you don't either.