Globe and Mail: Tories turn Google against rural MPs in gun-registry feud

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1. Searching for more firepower. Stephen Harper’s Conservatives have begun running a series Google ads on the Internet, targeting the opposition MPs who initially voted with them to scrap the long-gun registry.

Although it appears they no longer have the numbers to win next Wednesday’s vote, the Tories are refusing to surrender. In addition to the ads, the party is making calls into all of the opposition MPs’ ridings; thousands have already been made and more will come over the weekend.

And Prime Minster Stephen Harper is to visit Thunder Bay on Friday. The Northern Ontario city is home to two NDP MPs, John Rafferty and Bruce Hyer, both of whom voted last year to kill the registry.

The Google ads, meanwhile, are designed to target constituents in the ridings of the opposition MPs as they surf on the Web for information about the registry and their federal representatives. The Tories say it is the first time they’ve used this kind of advertising.

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