An Erin O'Toole Flyer Had Some Awkward Spelling Mistakes & You Bet The Internet Noticed
Can someone give us directions to where 'Otawa' is?
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.
Ottawa, the nation's capital, was misspelled as "Otawa," and the words "anti," "corruption," "action," "creating," and "essential" were all missing that crucial "i" 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.
A campaign official for the Conservative Party of Canada told Narcity via email that this was done by a local printer in Guelph in one isolated riding where they printed the piece. "There was an error in the settings for printing," they wrote.*
*This article has been updated.