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... is that sometimes, people remember even the really ridiculous ones that your campaign team madlibbed up at the last minute in order to fill up the remaining blank spots on your announcement-a-day schedule: 

Canada’s Doctors ask Prime Minister Harper to act on election promise

Ottawa, Jan. 12, 2009 —The President of Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada, Dr. Atul Kapur, and the President of the Canadian Medical Association, Dr. Robert Ouellet, will meet with members of the media on January 14th in Ottawa to discuss the crackdown on the marketing of flavoured tobacco products aimed at children.

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