With the next election less than a month away, the campaign season is in full swing for national candidates, and Erin O'Toole's pamphlets are getting the public's attention for all the wrong reasons.
#Otawa and #OTooleforPM have been trending on Twitter this past week after images of O'Toole's campaign flyers hit the internet. While at first glance they look like your ordinary, run-of-the-mill campaigning pamphlets, further inspection reveals several spelling errors. And, of course, Canadians were quick to point that out.
Hey @erinotoole what’s an “ant-corrupton” law and where is “Otawa” located ? Can’t wait to see how you go about “cr… https://t.co/Ic8U5UMaIP
— Kim Trudeau-Craig (@KimTrudeauCraig) 1629893036.0
Ottawa, the nation's capital, was misspelled as "Otawa," and it seems whoever created this campaign flyer either has a faulty keyboard or simply does not know where the "i" key is, because the words "anti," "corruption," "action," "creating," and "essential" were all missing that crucial vowel.
"There is no 'I' in team, but there is in 'essential', 'anti corruption' and 'fired copy editor,'" one Twitter user wrote. Another tweeted "Ant corruption has gone too far and must be stopped" in all-caps.
Some on Twitter believe that these spelling mistakes were an intentional ploy to bring more attention to the Conservative party and called on people to stop sharing posts about them.
But no warning could stop the discussion from spreading to all corners of the Internet; the typo-riddled campaign flyers reached LinkedIn's forums. One person even shared a YouTube clip from The Simpson's where ants become their "insect overlords."
Narcity reached out to the Federal Conservative Party for comment, but did not hear back by the time this story went to press.
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