Marco Rubio's new campaign ad features Canadian city's skyline

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Brian Ries
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U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio's presidential campaign has released a new Reaganesque ad that promises Americans a better tomorrow.

The video, which was uploaded to YouTube on Valentine's Day, features a boat cutting through a harbor at dawn and, inexplicably, the Vancouver skyline while a narrator says "it's morning again in America" -- a flub first spotted by BuzzFeed.

"It’s unmistakably Vancouver," says the Vancouver Sun, which should know.

"The tugboat," the paper notes, "also appears to be flying a Canadian flag."

The stock footage was shot by a Vancouver-based videographer, who told the CBC he was just as surprised as you would be if your amateur footage turned up on national television.

“It’s pretty funny, isn’t it?” Guy Chavasse said. “It’s a good-looking video, no doubt, but it’s pretty recognizable as Vancouver.”

"I don't actually get to see where my videos get used, I just put them online," he added, noting that the campaign probably paid Shutterstock just $80 for the rights.

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