Consumer Confidential: Canadian officials politely decry jagged little pill of attacks by U.S. drug industry
The 30-second ad isn't subtle. It opens with two pills, one emblazoned with the American flag, the other sporting a Canadian flag. "Which can you trust?" it asks.
"One is made with strict quality controls," the ad says. "The other counterfeit from Chinese labs and shipped through Canada."
The American pill, we're told, "has guaranteed FDA authenticity and safety." A nice, neat pharmacist in a white lab coat is shown carefully filling a prescription in a clean, healthy American drugstore.
The imagery shifts to what is apparently a dark, filthy Chinese lab, with medicine seemingly being manufactured in open containers of brown sludge.
"The Chinese pill is made from antifreeze,
