Advertising Standards Canada: Canada Jobs Grant

Canada Jobs Grant: The Conservative government's $2.5 million campaign last spring to promote the Canada Jobs Grant, a proposed job-training program that still doesn't exist almost a year later, is a case in point, according to Huffington Post. Not so fast, says a spokeswoman for the self-regulatory council and Government advertisers are free to blatantly misrepresent services or programs without public censure from the ad industry's self-regulatory watchdog, so long as they stop airing the offending ads after citizens complain. Both Global News and PostMedia News have revealed that Advertising Standards Canada, the "national, not-for-profit, advertising self-regulatory body," chided the government for the misleading ads, which were in heavy rotation last spring including during pricey NHL playoff telecasts. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.