Buzzfeed: Marco Rubio’s “Morning Again in America” ad uses Canadian stock footage

There are some things that are quintessentially American. A bowl of poutine, while listening to Leonard Cohen or Glass Tiger, or while watching Hockey Night in Canada.

What’s that you say? Those things are Canadian? Yes. And so, apparently, are key images in the new “Morning Again in America” ad from Marco Rubio.

Shots throughout the ad, according to Buzzfeed, incorporate ShutterStock footage of iconic vistas from Vancouver.

The one in Canada, not the one in Washington, to be clear.

Beyond that usage of Canadian stock footage, the original Ronald Reagan “Morning in America” ad celebrated progress made in Reagan’s first term, ahead of the 1984 campaign, closing with the “why would we ever want to return to where we were, less than four short years ago?”

A key difference: That justly iconic ad extolled progress under Reagan, projecting optimism; the Rubio spot, conversely, closed with a picture of President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, asking “why would we want four more years of that?”