Éric Blais: Conservatives spending $1 million advertising — to themselves

April 20, 2026

Éric Blais/Toronto Star: Prime Minister Mark Carney now has his majority. There is no general election on the horizon until 2028 or 2029. The store, as we say in marketing, is closed. Whatever impressions these ads manage to build — of a stronger Poilievre, of a Carney who hasn’t delivered on grocery prices — there is no mechanism to convert those impressions into anything that matters…