The Tories posted an ad on their own website showing an animated airborne puffin dropping a load on Dion's shoulder. The offending image was pulled in the morning after complaints, but was regularly re-run on television news networks as part of the coverage on the controversy.


Harper conceded that his party's poop-slinging had gone too far and apologized.

"It was in poor taste, it was absolutely inappropriate. We have big differences with the other leader...that are important to Canadians. My apologies for this error."